Adam Witney wrote:

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:59:52PM +0100, Adam Witney wrote:

Hi,

Im trying to upgrade from 7.4 -> 8.1 but it is failing with Unicode
errors. The offending character is the greek character mu (often used
for micro). Here is an offending string "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (in case it doesn't
appear in the email, the mu is between the B and the G)

Any ideas why this character is not valid in Unicode?

It's a valid unicode character, it's just you havn't encoded it in
unicode. It's probably in Latin-1. In that case, you need to specify it
in the client encoding...


Hi Martijn,

thanks for your quick response.

Ok i am a bit confused by all this encoding stuff... i don't really know
how to encode it in unicode? this is a text string that is extracted
from a text file, i just put it in an INSERT statement.

I have to replace fields with this in it with a valid string that will
load into 8.1, do you know who i would do the conversion?


What did you use to extract it from the text file? If you're using some text editor, ensure that it is set to UTF-8.

brian


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