# MyBB importer: "Invalid codepoint"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mybb-importer-invalid-codepoint/40015
**Category:** Migration
**Tags:** mybb
**Created:** [February 22, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mybb-importer-invalid-codepoint/40015 "2016-02-22T23:12:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jacotec](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jacotec)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mybb-importer-invalid-codepoint/40015/1 "2016-02-22T23:12:41Z")
Hi,
I’m trying to do a test import of my “MyBB” board with around 30.000 posts in it. I’ve got the importer running, but it’s struggling at a specific post:
`8795 / 29774 ( 29.5%) [208248 items/min] /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/cgi/util.rb:71:in`chr’: invalid codepoint 0xDBC0 in UTF-8 (RangeError)`
There is no way to get over this, looks like a specific post is bad for the import script.
I see two possible options:
- Delete that posting - but how can I find out what post 8795 is?
- Patch/Hotfix the import script - anyone an idea?
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### Author:  [@jacotec](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jacotec)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 8:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mybb-importer-invalid-codepoint/40015/2 "2016-02-23T08:56:04Z")
Hi,
I’ve solved this by putting a debug output into the import script to get the post PID’s … then edited the weird text in PHPMyAdmin 😊
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mybb-importer-invalid-codepoint/40015/3 "2016-02-23T09:30:50Z")