Pg::Error: Error: Invalid Byte Sequence for Encoding "Utf8": 0Xfc

invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8

If you need to store UTF8 data in your database, you need a database that accepts UTF8. You can check the encoding of your database in pgAdmin. Just right-click the database, and select "Properties".

But that error seems to be telling you there's some invalid UTF8 data in your source file. That means that the copy utility has detected or guessed that you're feeding it a UTF8 file.

If you're running under some variant of Unix, you can check the encoding (more or less) with the file utility.

$ file yourfilename
yourfilename: UTF-8 Unicode English text

(I think that will work on Macs in the terminal, too.) Not sure how to do that under Windows.

If you use that same utility on a file that came from Windows systems (that is, a file that's not encoded in UTF8), it will probably show something like this:

$ file yourfilename
yourfilename: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators

If things stay weird, you might try to convert your input data to a known encoding, to change your client's encoding, or both. (We're really stretching the limits of my knowledge about encodings.)

You can use the iconv utility to change encoding of the input data.

iconv -f original_charset -t utf-8 originalfile > newfile

You can change psql (the client) encoding following the instructions on Character Set Support. On that page, search for the phrase "To enable automatic character set conversion".

Postgres error on insert - ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0x00

PostgreSQL doesn't support storing NULL (\0x00) characters in text fields (this is obviously different from the database NULL value, which is fully supported).

Source: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS-UESCAPE

If you need to store the NULL character, you must use a bytea field - which should store anything you want, but won't support text operations on it.

Given that PostgreSQL doesn't support it in text values, there's no good way to get it to remove it. You could import your data into bytea and later convert it to text using a special function (in perl or something, maybe?), but it's likely going to be easier to do that in preprocessing before you load it.

PotgreSQL- ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0xeb 0x6e 0x74

If the three bytes quoted by the error message are supposed to encode the string “ënt”, you can solve your problem by setting the correct client encoding, e.g.

SET client_encoding = WIN1252;

invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0x00 response when i try to post and image with FormData object to the server

So i found a solution which is quite simple. When you get an image from you're gallery using react-native-image-picker you will get an object with a few keys as a response. There is a 'uri' key which is different for IOS and Android. And for IOS you it looks like that:

'file:///...'

All you have to do is remove 'file://' and now i append my image like that:

formData.append('profileImage', {
  name: profileImage.fileName,
  type: profileImage.type,
  uri: Platform.OS === 'android' ? 
       profileImage.uri :
       profileImage.uri.replace('file://', '')
});

In this article you can find more information about that.

Invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)

Probably your string is not in UTF-8 format, so use

if ! file_content.valid_encoding?
  s = file_content.encode("UTF-16be", :invalid=>:replace, :replace=>"?").encode('UTF-8')
  s.gsub(/dr/i,'med')
end

See "Ruby 2.0.0 String#Match ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8".

Ruby 2.2: PG::CharacterNotInRepertoire: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8

Looks like this is a known issue with "pg" gem: https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/issue/197/ruby-220-byte-encoding-issue

It should be fixed in 0.18 pre-release

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