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| 1250161887 | I_kwDOCGYnMM5Kg_Tf | 438 | illegal UTF-16 surrogate | 4068 | closed | 0 | 2 | 2022-05-26T22:49:52Z | 2022-05-27T08:21:53Z | 2022-05-27T08:21:53Z | NONE | I am trying to insert `https://artsdatabanken.no/Fab2018/api/export/csv` into a SQLite database, but I have an error when using `sqlite-utils`: ``` sqlite-utils insert --csv --delimiter ";" --encoding="utf-16-le" --pk "Id" csv fremmedart test.db [------------------------------------] 0% Error: 'utf-16-le' codec can't decode bytes in position 98-99: illegal UTF-16 surrogate The input you provided uses a character encoding other than utf-8. You can fix this by passing the --encoding= option with the encoding of the file. If you do not know the encoding, running 'file filename.csv' may tell you. It's often worth trying: --encoding=latin-1 ``` I tried to convert the file using `iconv -f "utf-16le" -t "utf-8"`, but I still get a similar error (slightly different position): ``` sqlite-utils insert --csv --delimiter ";" --encoding=utf-8 --pk "Id" csv_utf8 fremmedart test.db [------------------------------------] 0% Error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd9 in position 99: invalid continuation byte The input you provided uses a character encoding other than utf-8. You can fix this by passing the --encoding= option with the encoding of the file. If you do not know the encoding, running 'file filename.csv' may tell you. It's often worth trying: --encoding=latin-1 ``` I have no issues reading such file using this Python code: ```python content = open('csv', encoding='utf-16-le').read()) ``` `in2csv` works too. | 140912432 | issue | {"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/438/reactions", "total_count": 0, "+1": 0, "-1": 0, "laugh": 0, "hooray": 0, "confused": 0, "heart": 0, "rocket": 0, "eyes": 0} | completed |