The string that is causing the problem is the £ character. I am typing it
directly from my keyboard and am not copying it from anywhere else.

I put Sequel::Model.plugin :force_encoding, 'UTF-8' in my model file and it
didn't fix the problem.

On 13 August 2015 at 14:59, Jeremy Evans <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 3:51:09 AM UTC-7, desbest wrote:
>>
>> I tried to insert this into my heroku postgres database.
>>
>> In Britain, if a child doesn't go to school for a day, the parent gets in
>> big trouble and depending on the school, the parent might might require a
>> written note **in advance**** or even be charged £60 a day for each
>> day's absence. If teachers are going to implement strict punishments when
>> school attendance isn't essential, why should teachers be allowed to strike?
>>
>> And got this error.
>>
>> Problem making a comment with ajax. PG::CharacterNotInRepertoire: ERROR:
>> invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa3
>>
>> Sequel::Model.plugin :force_encoding, 'UTF-8'
>> :encoding => 'utf8'
>>
>>
>>
>>> I've tried using a new blank database and it didn't help.
>>
>>
> It sounds like your database is already in UTF-8 encoding.  However, you
> submitted a string that wasn't in UTF-8 encoding, which caused the database
> to return an error instead of accepting the query.  The force_encoding
> plugin should make it so the models use UTF-8, but there are still cases
> where things will not work. For example, if the string you give it is
> marked as UTF-8 but contains non-UTF-8 data.  Could you put together a self
> contained example showing the problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>
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