Re: UTF8

Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:

> Markus Schaber wrote:
>> Hi, Bakos,
>> Bakos Sandor wrote:
>>
>>>I get the following exception when I read a simple TXT file in Linux and
>>>try to INSERT to the psql. (8.1.4)
>>>
>>>org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: character 0xefbfbd of encoding
>>>"UTF8" has no equivalent in "LATIN2"


> I would guess that the problem is probably that when *reading* the
> text file originally, the wrong encoding is being used to convert the
> bytes to Java Strings. If you don't use the right encoding here, then
> the Java String you end up with will be garbage.

Very likely since 0xefbfbd is the... unicode "replacement character"

 http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm

Try printing this file from Java for debugguing.