[Developers] mqlwrite error: codec can't decode bytes in position 4-6: invalid data

[Ben Drees]

Augusto,

I think you are POSTing ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8.

The accented e arrives as hex bytes 25 45 39 ("%E9").  These get 
form-decoded to hex byte E9,
which is not valid UTF-8.  The Unicode code point is U+00E9, so Aseem's 
fix should work.  The
actual UTF-8 bytes would be hex C3 A9.

-Ben

Aseem Mohanty wrote:
> Hi Augusto,
>
> This seems to be a shortcoming in the JSON libraries we use. We are 
> working on a fix. For the time being you can try using the unicode point 
> for the e with an accent: \u00e9 instead.
>
> If that does not work please let us know.
>
> AM
>
> Augusto Callejas wrote:
>   
>> hi-
>>
>> i get this error, i assume its because of the character ��.
>> this is on sandbox, not production server.
>>
>> ===
>> {  "query139" : {    "query" : [ {      "create" : "unconditional",
>> "type" : "/business/company",      "id" : null,      "/type/object/name" : [
>> "Glac�au's Vitamin Water" ]    } ]  } }
>> ---
>> {  "status":"500 Internal Server Error",  "code":"/api/status/error",
>> "messages":[    "'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 4-6: invalid
>> data"  ],  
>> "transaction_id":"cache;cache01.sandbox.sjc1:8101;2008-09-25T20:18:36Z;0003"
>> }
>> ===
>>
>> is there any way around problem?
>>
>> thanks,
>> augusto.
>>
>>
>>
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