# Unicode issues

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode-issues/88904>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode-issues/88904 "2007-03-15T14:51:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nicholas\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@Nicholas\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nicholas_W)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode-issues/88904/1 "2007-03-15T14:51:19Z")

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Hi \*, I keep having a PGERROR

PGError: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding “UTF8”: 0xa9  
(ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid)

My db (postgres) is UTF-8, and I set encoding:unicode in database.yml.  
Someone else had this problem and solved it ??

## TIA, ngw

Nicholas W.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![Nicholas\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@Nicholas\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nicholas_W)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode-issues/88904/2 "2007-03-15T15:01:20Z")

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check your data, probably your code tries to save some string that  
is in non-utf8 encoding.

2007/3/15, Nicholas W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):