Re: Freebcp character conversion Issue

Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:53:25 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID <CAHt6W4fwz8sc31=Wq0MNa8kjCZ6Kq9-2k8P-u68_kGvvFF00cQ@mail.gmail.com>
Usually this is an indication of:
- you are not uring libiconv;
- the client charset is not able to handle some server character (try utf-8);
- your database contains some garbage.

Are you able to understand which data has the issue?

Frediano


2017-03-22 6:11 GMT+00:00  <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> Recently, I have been working with freebcp command of freetds driver, where I came across character conversion issue while trying to back up the table of MS SQL Server database.
> Please look into the below error and help to get rid of the same as soon as possible.
>
> We did try to declare client charset value with freetds.conf file but that is not useful either.
>
> Error:
> Some character(s) could not be converted into client's character set. Unconverted bytes were changed to question marks ('?')".
>
>
> Looking forward to your earliest response,
>
> Regards,
> Vasanth
>