Re: UTF characters compromising data import.

Hello

2011/2/8 Gavin Beau Baumanis <beau(at)palcare(dot)com(dot)au>:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am trying to import some data (provided to us from an external source) from a CSV file using "\copy ...."
>
> But I get the following error message;
> invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xfd
> HINT:  This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding".
>
> I understand the error message - but what I don't know is what I need to set the encoding to - in order to import  / use the data.
>

is impossible to import data without knowledge of encoding.

you can use a some utils, that try to select a encoding

http://linux.die.net/man/1/enca

Regards

Pavel Stehule

> As always - thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.
>
>
> Gavin "Beau" Baumanis
>
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