> Anyone got any ideas how I can hunt down what is in this row, visually > looking at it hasn't helped? As a followup, I am getting this same sort of error at various points on the file. So I tried taking the line, and cleaning it with Iconv and turning it into an ASCII sequence and inserting it back into the file. I still get the same error with the same invalid character.... too weird. I have a few lines that fail, all with different invalid character encodings: 0xe92042 0xe42050 0xa2 0xc220 0xdb20 0xe42050 0xe92042 It's at the rate of about one every 50,000 rows... so no real big deal... but still... -- http://lindsaar.net/ Rails, RSpec and Life blog....