Re: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8"

On 1/16/07, Gary Benade <gary(at)softwareguys(dot)co(dot)za> wrote:
>
> I used shp2pgsql.exe to create an import sql for my gis database.
> The resultant sql has data like this in it.INSERT INTO "gis"."sa_area"
> ("label","type","level",the_geom) VALUES
> ('MÔRELIG','0x2','2','0106000000010000000');
> The Ô is ascii char 212.
> This wont import, PSQL returns
> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xd452
> HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the
> encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client-encoding"
>

I am not terribly familiar with PostGIS (other than installing it, running
the test cases and saying cool :), but it appears that your source data is
probably ISO-8859-1. You should probably use the -W switch with shp2pgsql
and specify the client encoding as "LATIN1", it should write a dump file
with SET client_encoding to 'LATIN1' instead of UTF8 (or you can manually
tweak the SQL file).

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Chad
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