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Anonymous
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ODBC Query Unicode Error

Hi all,

 

We are having difficulties with a native query using ODBC on our 4D database. We are already using this data source in a report (created and published with Power BI Desktop September version), which works perfectly.

 

When developing a new report , the following error message now appears almost continuously:

 

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Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

 

Best regards
MG

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v-jingzhang
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Anonymous 

 

I found an old thread having the same error with ODBC query. See if it helps: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Unable-to-translate-Unicode-character/td-p/1183417 

 

Maybe it's not a Power Query issue. You may try in other applications or programming scripts to test if your computer can query data from the same database with this ODBC driver. 

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
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Ehren
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

What's the full error stack trace? (It's clipped in the screenshot.)

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