: Died at ./dumpfile-to-rt-3.0 line 714

anyone have an idea on how to work around/fix this error? …upgrading
from rt2.0.15 to rt-3.0.12 using a postgres8.x db.

.t-617
.t-618
.t-619
.t-620
.t-621
Couldn’t create attachment
$VAR1 = {
‘Subject’ => ‘’,
‘ContentType’ => ‘text/html’,
‘Headers’ => ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
’,
‘Creator’ => ‘70’,
‘Parent’ => ‘965’,
‘Created’ => ‘2002-07-11 20:10:19+00’,
‘id’ => ‘967’,
‘ContentEncoding’ => ‘none’,
‘TransactionId’ => ‘1886’
};

ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding “UNICODE”: 0xdf3c

[Wed Jun 29 15:19:20 2005] [crit]: Died at ./dumpfile-to-rt-3.0 line 714.
(/opt/rt3/lib/RT.pm:255)

thanks in advance,
mitchell

anyone have an idea on how to work around/fix this error? …upgrading
from rt2.0.15 to rt-3.0.12 using a postgres8.x db.

t-617
t-618
t-619
t-620
t-621
Couldn’t create attachment
$VAR1 = {
‘Subject’ => ‘’,
‘ContentType’ => ‘text/html’,
‘Headers’ => 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=“ISO-8859-1”
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
',
‘Creator’ => ‘70’,
‘Parent’ => ‘965’,
‘Created’ => ‘2002-07-11 20:10:19+00’,
‘id’ => ‘967’,
‘ContentEncoding’ => ‘none’,
‘TransactionId’ => ‘1886’
};

ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding “UNICODE”: 0xdf3c

[Wed Jun 29 15:19:20 2005] [crit]: Died at ./dumpfile-to-rt-3.0 line 714.
(/opt/rt3/lib/RT.pm:255)

I have never had a complete response on rt-users on how to work around
this issue; when we upgraded our RT installation to 3.2.2 I had to hack
the exporter script (the following is an excerpt from the transaction
history in our ticketing system for the job):

I have bludgeoned the importer into working by adding the statement:

Hacked by Julian

$RT::Handle->SimpleQuery(“SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO ‘LATIN1’”);

into the dumpfile-to-rt3.0 script. Note that one can’t translate
SQL_ASCII directly into UNICODE per the docs
(PostgreSQL: Documentation: 7.4: Character Set Support) so I chose
LATIN1 (ISO-8859-1) instead, in the hopes that this will work.

However, this broke most, if not all, the historical attachments. If you
can live with that (as we decided we could), then this will at least
make the import/export work.

  • Julian

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