Re: How to find freak UTF-8 character?

On Saturday 1. October 2011 07.55.01 Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> I've somehow introduced a spurious UTF-8 character in my database. When I
> try to export to an application that requires LATIN1 encoding, my export
> script bombs out with this message:
>
> psycopg2.DataError: character 0xe2808e of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent
> in "LATIN1"

I finally figured it out, with a little help from maatb's unicode database
(http://vazor.com/unicode/c200E.html)

SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar LIKE E'%\xe2\x80\x8e%';

regards, Leif