Re: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8":0x93 Error

Thanks Alvaro. What do I do with a apostrophe (such as I've)?

Mary

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From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:48 PM
To: Wang, Mary Y
Cc: Michał Pawlikowski; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8":0x93 Error

Wang, Mary Y escribió:
> Hi Michal,
>
> Thanks for the info. However, the text that the user entered is all in English letters. I saw this error, when I restored my database with the pg_dump --insert option. That row didn't get inserted to the table. What's interesting about this problem is that when I manually entered the data to the database via psql, this record made it without any problems. It's still a mystery to me .....

Well, 0x93 is certainly not an english letter; most likely it's a win1252-encoded curved single quote. That's not within the ASCII definition. You can probably insert the data by declaring

SET client_encoding TO 'win1252'

at the start of the file.

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