Re: not valid character for Unicode

Adam Witney wrote:
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> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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>>On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:59:52PM +0100, Adam Witney wrote:
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>>>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 "BµG@S" (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...
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> Hi Martijn,
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> 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