Re: ERROR: could not convert UTF-8 character 0x00ef to ISO8859-1 possiblesolution

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc(at)mnc(dot)ch>
Cc: Anders Hermansen <anders(at)yoyo(dot)no>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ERROR: could not convert UTF-8 character 0x00ef to ISO8859-1 possiblesolution
Date: 2005-04-27 14:36:58
Message-ID: 22055.1114612618@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Guillaume Cottenceau <gc(at)mnc(dot)ch> writes:
> My reasoning was that if the first byte of this two-byte
> sequence is 0x00 then the rule that 0xEF is first byte of a
> three-byte sequence doesn't apply, since 0xEF is second byte in
> the sequence.

Looking at the source code, it's clear that it's reporting just the
first byte of the sequence; the 00 is redundant and probably shouldn't
be in the message.

There seem to be two possibilities: either there is a valid 3-byte
UTF8 character, which cannot be converted to LATIN1; or the alleged
UTF8 data isn't really UTF8 at all.

regards, tom lane

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