Thread: Invalid Characters

On 15/03/2004 10:37 Raman wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have imported some data from csv files in my DB. Now that data has some
> invalid characters stored in it.
> so I get this exception:
> 
> Exception in ChannelDAO Invalid character data was found.  This is most
> likely caused by stored data containing characters that are invalid for
> the character set
>  the database was created in.  The most common example of this is storing
> 8bit data in a SQL_ASCII database.
> 
> 
> Now, I tried using to_ascii() fn in my select query but it didn't work.
> Cn you please suggest any solution so that invalid characters should not
> come to my webpage while displaying.
> 
> Regards
> Raman Garg
> 

Use UNICODE as the db encoding. You'll have to drop and re-create the db 
though.

HTH

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