Re: confusing invalid UTF8 byte sequence error

From: Valentine Gogichashvili <valgog(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: confusing invalid UTF8 byte sequence error
Date: 2011-08-29 15:03:29
Message-ID: CAP93muUiXM6M9Y20oBZD7F7GQ_m=Oh1gcKr3hNH3G8Ruv4Ng9w@mail.gmail.com
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> Has anyone else ever found this error message confusing:
> ERROR: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xdb24
> I think what is really meant is better expressed like this:
> ERROR: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xdb 0x24
> Otherwise it looks like a codepoint or a 16-bit word (endianness?) or
> who knows what.

Talking about this error, I find the lack of context in this error message
more confusing... relative position or surrounding charachters would be
really helpful, when searching for a problem with encoding...

-- Valentine Gogichashvili

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