title: Postgresql - Populating database from Excel File
body: <p>I want to populate my Customer database from an excel file and i am using the \copy command but i get the following error. can anyone please help me with this?</p>
  
  <pre><code>\copy customer from '/home/2008/uehtes/Desktop/Comp421/data.xlsx';
  ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xde76
  CONTEXT:  COPY customer, line 1
  </code></pre>