incorrect string value

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I imported some sms messages with emoticons in them and even though I’m setup for utf8 encoding such as foreign languages, these emoticons raise ‘incorrect string value’ error

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Hi, have you defined on the very first line of your ruby file UTF encoding as follows:

encoding: utf-8

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3

You say when you are importing to DB? Usually you should have utf8mb4 as your encoding in that case :slight_smile:

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or

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rails+mysql+emoji