Michael Fuhr 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. > > Actually it's <U+20BB7 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20BB7>. Oops, you're correct. Made an error in my calculations. Thanks. So that explains the problem. Still, to handle it, the offending character needs to be changed before converting to SJIS. Yours, Laurenz Albe