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Getting error of 'BLOB is not a valid UTF-8 string'.

Posted by Nitish on April 30, 2016 at 8:29 AM

Created an email service and when sending the file and looking into debug logs, it is showing error ‘BLOB is not a valid UTF-8 string‘.

Please help.

Suyash replied 10 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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Ravi

Member
April 30, 2016 at 9:23 AM

Hi Nitish,

The Blob type only supports UTF-8 encoded strings, you must ensure that the file your uploading complies with this encoding, otherwise you will get this error in cases where you have special characters.
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Suyash

Member
April 30, 2016 at 10:26 AM

Hi Nitish,

This error was too faced by me when I was writing the email service class.
First ensure that your file is encoded in UTF-8 encoding.
Second if you are splitting your file which was my case check it split in right way as some times extra “,(comma)” creates this type of error.

Thanks

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