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Subject: Re: [SQL]
From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver () gmail ! com>
Date: 2014-02-15 15:30:09
Message-ID: 52FF8801.30005 () gmail ! com
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On 02/15/2014 03:18 AM, avpro avpro wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> In postgresql 9.3 using pgAdmin, I created a table for my application
> developed in Qt Creator.
> the table contains:
> idstudent - pk
> name
> country
> town
> street
>
>
> I would like to import a csv file containing all the info about these
> students. The file was saved/encoded in excel with UTF8 characters.
You specified UTF8 when creating the CSV file?
>
> When I'm importing my file in psql, using the encoding UTF8, I receive
> the following error for each character not recognized:
> "error: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": ... " followed by the
> character code
>
> I tried to import the file using SQL_ASCII, I got similar errors.
> I tried to import the file using MULE_INTERNAL and it worked, but the
> characters not recognized are not shown correct in pdAdmin and in my
> application when query is executed. For example after I imported the
> file with LATIN1 all unrecognized characters were replaced with "?".
>
> Any suggestion what encoding shall I use to display the characters
> correctly?
Might want to take a look at this tool:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet
>
> note: the student's names and addresses are written using characters
> from North Europe, Eastern EU, Russia, South America, Asia, etc.
> everywhere.
>
> Thank you for your input.
--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@gmail.com
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