From 90254d157201e0162125a8b0ddad2167e0482b76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 17:46:42 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] add a note about file encoding

---
 docs/migrate.rst | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/migrate.rst b/docs/migrate.rst
index 03e2aa8514..ccb9341640 100644
--- a/docs/migrate.rst
+++ b/docs/migrate.rst
@@ -30,4 +30,7 @@ Import Data
 
 The new database should now be correctly initialized with the correct table structures requried to import the data.
 
-``python3 InvenTree/manage.py loaddata data.json``
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+``python3 InvenTree/manage.py loaddata data.json``
+
+.. important:: 
+   If the character encoding of the data file does not exactly match the target database, the import operation may not succeed. In this case, some manual editing of the data file may be required.
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