id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason 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