I filed a bug earlier, the gist of which is below but perhaps there is some setting or flag I am missing when importing? If your import file contains a number of character combinations, such as \560, \561, \700 and probably lots of others, the copy into fails with a message like: Failed to import table line 5 field 1 'varchar(20)' expected in 'FIVE\700' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create table test (test varchar(20)); 2. create a load file test.txt with the following: ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE\700 3. copy into test from 'test.txt' using delimiters '\t','\n'; 4. fails with message: Failed to import table line 5 field 1 'varchar(20)' expected in 'FIVE\700' Actual Results: Failed to import table line 5 field 1 'varchar(20)' expected in 'FIVE\700' Expected Results: should import OK, the character combinations are valid Andy Barlow Datum360