Character with byte sequence 0x9d in encoding 'WIN1252' has no equivalent in encoding 'UTF8'

Question

I am reading a csv file in my sql script and copying its data into a postgre sql table. The line of code is below :

\\copy participants_2013 from \'C:/Users/         


        

Answer 1

I had this problem today and it was because inside of a TEXT column I had fancy quotes that had been copy/pasted from an external source.