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Re: How to find freak UTF-8 character?

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On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 07:55:01AM +0200, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> I've somehow introduced a spurious UTF-8 character in my database. When I try 
> to export to an application that requires LATIN1 encoding, my export script 
> bombs out with this message:
> 
> psycopg2.DataError: character 0xe2808e of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in 
> "LATIN1"

I see you found it, but note that it's _not_ a spurious UTF-8
character: it's a right-to-left mark, ans is a perfectly ok UTF-8 code
point.

If you need a subset of the UTF-8 character set, you want to make sure
you have some sort of constraint in your application or your database
that prevents insertion of anything at all in UTF-8.  This is a need
people often forget when working in an internationalized setting,
because there's a lot of crap that comes from the client side in a
UTF-8 setting that might not come in other settings (like LATIN1).

Best,

A

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