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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:11:07 +0100
From: Andrew Woodcock <andywoodcock11@gmail.com>
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  On 28/07/2010 07:24, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:
> Hey Andrew,
>
> I remember people on this ML having problems with escaping/quotes on windows which leads to this kind of error. You could try to save the document to foo.json and curl-X PUT http://username:password@127.0.0.1:5984/albums/6e1295ed6c29495e54cc05947f18c8af -d @foo.json
>
> Best
>
> Sebastian
>
> On 27.07.2010, at 23:24, Andrew Woodcock wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> this is probably a real noob problem but I am experiencing an issue where whenever I try to create a document on CouchDB using curl, I get an "Invalid UTF-8 JSON" error. The example I am trying to use is actually from O'Reilly's book "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide" and I am pretty sure that I have tried it before and got it to work. Here's the command:
>>
>> |curl-X PUT http://username:password@127.0.0.1:5984/albums/6e1295ed6c29495e54cc05947f18c8af -d '{"title":"There is Nothing Left to Lose","artist":"Foo Fighters"}'
>> |
>>
>> The database albums exists and the username and password are correct. I have checked this with JSONLint and the JSON is valid and I am at a loss ... presumably there is an issue with the CouchDB server itself but it appears to be running correctly ... any ideas? This is driving me nuts!
>>
>> I am running CouchDB 0.11 on Windows 7. curl is installed and working correctly as far as I can tell. Sofa is working correctly and I can create documents via Sofa with no issues.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
Fantastic! Thank you! That must be about the only combination of 
escaping I hadn't tried :) and I can confirm that it worked perfectly.

I can stop ripping my hair out now ...

Regards,

Andrew