confusing invalid UTF8 byte sequence error

Has anyone else ever found this error message confusing:
ERROR: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xdb24
I think what is really meant is better expressed like this:
ERROR: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xdb 0x24
Otherwise it looks like a codepoint or a 16-bit word (endianness?) or
who knows what.

Talking about this error, I find the lack of context in this error message
more confusing... relative position or surrounding charachters would be
really helpful, when searching for a problem with encoding...

-- Valentine Gogichashvili

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Valentine Gogichashvili
<valgog@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone else ever found this error message confusing:
ERROR:  22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xdb24
I think what is really meant is better expressed like this:
ERROR:  22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xdb 0x24
Otherwise it looks like a codepoint or a 16-bit word (endianness?) or
who knows what.

Talking about this error, I find the lack of context in this error message
more confusing... relative position or surrounding charachters would be
really helpful, when searching for a problem with encoding...

+1. Twiddling with the exact wording of the error message doesn't
seem likely to make a huge difference in terms of usability, but
providing some more context would be *really* helpful.

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