Character set encoding for file import

In the base configuration, if you do not supply a value for the import_tools -charset option, PolicyCenter assumes a character set encoding of UTF-8 for the import file. It is possible that the file that you want to import contains characters not recognized by the import tools default character encoding.

If this is the case, then you need to set the character set encoding to a more appropriate value. For example, for a file that contains single-byte data as accented characters or characters with umlauts, a -charset value of ISO-8859-1 is possibly more appropriate.