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.
>
> Thank you for your input.
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