Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: >>> I sometimes have a problem with conversion of encodings eg from UTF-8 >>> tio ShiftJIS: >>> >>> ERROR: character 0xf0a0aeb7 of encoding "UTF8" has no >>> equivalent in "SJIS" >>> >>> I have no idea what character this is, I cannot view it in my >>> browser, etc. >> >> It translates to Unicode 10BB7, which is not defined. >> I guess that is not intended; can you guess what the character(s) should be? > > to be honest no idea. its some chinese character, I have no idea how the > user input this, because this is a japanese page. > > I actually found the carachter, but only my Mac OS X can show it. It > looks similar to a japanese character used for a name, but how the > chinese one got selected is a mystery to me ... Are you sure that your Mac OS X computer interprets the character as UTF-8? Yours, Laurenz Albe