I had a similar problem. Try different encodings like this command:
set client_encoding to 'LATIN1';
Then:
COPY filename FROM 'file/path/filename.csv' WITH DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER; On 2/15/2014 6:18 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.
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?
note: the student's names and addresses are written using characters from North Europe, Eastern EU, Russia, South America, Asia, etc. everywhere.
