Re: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8"

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 03:40:52PM +0200, Gary Benade wrote:
> I used shp2pgsql.exe to create an import sql for my gis database.
> The resultant sql has data like this in it.INSERT INTO "gis"."sa_area" ("label","type","level",the_geom) VALUES ('MÔRELIG','0x2','2','0106000000010000000');
> The Ô is ascii char 212.
> This wont import, PSQL returns
> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xd452
> 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"

Well, your data isn't UTF8 and yet that's what you told the server.
Either make the data UTF8, or tell the server the actual encoding
used...

Have a nice day,
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