Thank you Gustavo.
Worked on all my shells.
I was trying to escape the apostrophe (') instead of the whole line.
Many many thanks.On 25 January 2017 at 20:57, John Le Brasseur <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi and sorry. > Another curl command-line escape character question. > > This command is not working: > > curl -X PUT http://user:[email protected]:5984/testdb/ > 4e2a2835b2dc1f424b0d5ef14400zzzz -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d > '{"Body":"I decided today that I don't like baseball. I like plankton."}' > > No response or if I alter quotation marks etc.etc. I > get {"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"} > > > I have eliminated everything and the cause is the ' in don't. > I just don't know how to escape the ' correctly.(pun not intended) > > I have actually tried every shell I can(Powershell, Bash and Windows > command line) > > > John > John
