Re: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashish Karalkar" <ashish(dot)karalkar(at)info-spectrum(dot)com>
To: "Albe Laurenz" <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xff

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Albe Laurenz" <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>
> To: "Ashish Karalkar *EXTERN*" <ashish(dot)karalkar(at)info-spectrum(dot)com>;
> <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xff
>
>
> Ashish Karalkar wrote:
>> I have a data script which runs fine from PgAdmin SQL
>> Editor,but when I run this from command prompt I get
>> following error:
>>
>>
>> test=# \i /usr/local/pgsql/qsweb1/QSWEB_100_4_Default_Data.sql
>>
>> psql:/usr/local/pgsql/qsweb1/QSWEB_100_4_Default_Data.sql:1:
>> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xff
>> 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".
>>
>> can anybody suggest me what is going wrong.
>> database encoding :UTF8
>>
>> PostgreSQL details:
>>
>> version
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> PostgreSQL 8.2.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc
>> (GCC) 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)
>
> Can you tell us the following:
>
> Please find my answer below
>
> - What is the client operating system (where you run psql and
> PgAdmin III)?
>
> Its Windows XP - PgAdmin III
> RHEL 3.4.3-9.EL4-psql (Server Machine)
>
>
> - What is the value of the environment variable PGCLIENTENCODING
> set to on the client?
> PGCLIENTENCODING is not set and as per documantation I think by default it
> takes value of database i.e. UTF8
>
> - What does the SQL command "show client_encoding;" return
> when you issue it in
> a) PgAdmin III
> UNICODE
> b) psql
> UTF8
>
> - Please create a file that contains only the first line
> of QSWEB_100_4_Default_Data.sql (I call it "l" in the following
> commands), run the following two (Linux) commands on it:
> a) od -t c l
> b) od -t x1 l
> and show us the output of both commands.
>
>
> [root(at)localhost qsweb]# od -t c test.sql
> 0000000 \ s e t O N _ E R R O R _ S T
> 0000020 O P
> 0000022
> [root(at)localhost qsweb]# od -t x1 test.sql
> 0000000 5c 73 65 74 20 4f 4e 5f 45 52 52 4f 52 5f 53 54
> 0000020 4f 50
> 0000022
> [root(at)localhost qsweb]#
>
> Thanks Albe for your replay.
> here is the data you wanted
>
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>
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