Hi and thanks for the replies,
I have had some luck.
I did find the encoding used originally to create the text files I am trying to
import.
I have managed to use the client_encoding environmental variable and then
successfully did manage to import the data.
Gavin.
On 12/02/2011, at 8:15 P
On 2011-02-08, Gavin Beau Baumanis wrote:
> I understand the error message - but what I don't know is what I
> need to set the encoding to - in order to import / use the data.
if you run it through
iconv --from-code=ASCII -to-code=UTF8 -c
it'll strip out all the non-ascii symbols, wi
Hello
2011/2/8 Gavin Beau Baumanis :
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am trying to import some data (provided to us from an external source) from
> a CSV file using "\copy "
>
> But I get the following error message;
> invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xfd
> HINT: This error can also happen if
Hi Everyone,
I am trying to import some data (provided to us from an external source) from a
CSV file using "\copy "
But I get the following error message;
invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xfd
HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the
encoding expe