So I'm able to see different characters now, nut I'm still not able to delete the measurement.
curl -u user:pass -G 'https://server:8086/query?pretty=true' --data-urlencode "db=mydb" --data-urlencode "q=show measurements" { "results": [ { "statement_id": 0, "series": [ { "name": "measurements", "columns": [ "name" ], "values": [ [ "\u00053\ufffdf\ufffd" ], [ "brocade-interface" ], [ "cpu" ], [ "disk" ], [ "diskio" ], [ "interface" ], [ "io" ], [ "kernel" ], [ "mem" ], [ "net" ], [ "netstat" ], [ "ping" ], [ "processes" ], [ "swap" ], [ "system" ] ] } ] } ] } With CLI: > DROP MEASUREMENT "\u00053\ufffdf\ufffd" ERR: error parsing query: found \u, expected identifier at line 1, char 20 With curl: --data-urlencode "q=drop measurement \u00053\ufffdf\ufffd" { "error": "error parsing query: found \\, expected identifier at line 1, char 18" } --data-urlencode "q=drop measurement \\u00053\\ufffdf\\ufffd" { "error": "error parsing query: found \\, expected identifier at line 1, char 18" } --data-urlencode "q=drop measurement \"u00053\\ufffdf\\ufffd\"" { "error": "error parsing query: found \\u, expected identifier at line 1, char 26" } --data-urlencode "q=drop measurement \"u00053\ufffdf\ufffd\"" { "error": "error parsing query: found \\u, expected identifier at line 1, char 26" } Tx for the help. Willem -- Remember to include the version number! --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxData" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to influxdb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to influxdb@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/dc481392-214b-4cf5-9f6b-dbbcc81c740d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.