When I try to import data from a unicode file into PostgreSQL 7.4 under FreeBSD it appears to now understand the
Unicodefile format.
To demonstrate I export a set of Integers into a Unicode file from MSSQL 2000. I samba the file to a FreeBSD box and
tryto import from psql with COPY. It fails. Wordpad and Notepad both read the file ok, even after I bounce the file via
theFreeBSD box (to test samba didn't munge it).
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0
PGSql 7.4 (dl'd and compiled fri 28th Nov 2003)
Dual 800MHz P3's
I create a database with encoding = UNICODE.
I create a table
CREATE TABLE testunicode
(
anum int4
) WITHOUT OIDS;
I then use psql to import the file, which is a single column of integers.
copy testunicode from '/home/toby/itxt/anum.txt';
ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "ÿþ1"
CONTEXT: COPY testunicode, line 1, column anum: "ÿþ1"
When viewing the file as hex I see:
FF FE 31 00 31 00 32 00 37 00 39 00 30 00 0D 00 0A 00
ÿ þ 1 . 1 . 2 . 7 . 9 . 0 . . . . .
According to http://www.crispen.org/src/archive/0013.html
FF FE UTF-16/UCS-2, big endian
So, what is going wrong? Why can't I import this very simple unicode file?
I've searched the archives and google, but to no avail.
Btw, the actual stuff I want to import is larger and more complex, this little table is to demonstrate the problem.
Help would be muchly appreciated.
Toby
