Re: not valid character for Unicode

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Adam Witney <awitney(at)sgul(dot)ac(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: not valid character for Unicode
Date: 2006-06-09 15:10:54
Message-ID: 20060609151054.GA26418@svana.org
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:59:52PM +0100, Adam Witney wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Im trying to upgrade from 7.4 -> 8.1 but it is failing with Unicode
> errors. The offending character is the greek character mu (often used
> for micro). Here is an offending string "BµG(at)S" (in case it doesn't
> appear in the email, the mu is between the B and the G)
>
> Any ideas why this character is not valid in Unicode?

It's a valid unicode character, it's just you havn't encoded it in
unicode. It's probably in Latin-1. In that case, you need to specify it
in the client encoding...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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