Re: utf8 errors

From: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>
To: Jiří Pavlovský <jiri(at)pavlovsky(dot)eu>
Cc: pgeu-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: utf8 errors
Date: 2013-06-30 15:31:05
Message-ID: 20130630153105.GB5789@msgid.df7cb.de
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Re: Jiří Pavlovský 2013-06-25 <51C9B98D(dot)6050104(at)pavlovsky(dot)eu>
> Hello,
>
> I have a win32 application. It uses gtk for GUI and postgres. Recently I
> upgraded to newer gtk and postgres 9.2. I'm now getting utf8 errors from
> postgres.
> The thing I don't understand that the queries, which postgres complains
> about, seem to be perfectly valid.
>
> For example
> LOG: statement: INSERT INTO recipients (DealID,
> Contactid) VALUES (29009, 9387)
> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x9c
>
>
> But the query is clean ascii and it doesn't even contain the mentioned
> character.

0x9c is "STRING TERMINATOR" in the latin1 charset:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/9c/index.htm

Make sure your queries don't contain funky extra chars that are
invisible in the editor.

Christoph
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