Re: UTF characters compromising data import.

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 PM, Jasen Betts wrote:

> On 2011-02-08, Gavin Beau Baumanis <beau@palcare.com.au> 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,  without knowing the
> encoding it's impossible to assign any useful meaning to them.
> This step may render your data useless, it would be much better to
> find out what the encoding should be.
>
> perhaps you can figure it out by observation?
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