It looks like now it's just an issue with escaping. Try using another tool to print the unicode literal, e.g.
curl ... --data-urlencode $(python -c 'print(u"q=drop measurement \u00053\ufffdf\ufffd")') On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Willem D'Haese <willem.dha...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/dc481392-214b-4cf5-9f6b-dbbcc81c740d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CALxJwdPfxurwZ-wD0DkLBKhTMGuEDHyttqtZsbKq5GqHCtxpGg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.