Invalid UTF-8 JSON creating empty documents in Chapter 5

[mikemil]

I encountered the 'Invalid UTF-8 JSON' error when trying to follow the instructions for creating an empty document. Then I decided to add a field and value. After getting the error again, I started looking at the reported issues and found #244 but either I am doing it wrong or it doesn't work. Yes, I am running on Window XP.

Below is a copy from my cmd prompt:

d:\java>curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/basic -d '{}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
{"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"}

d:\java>curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/basic -d '{"field" : "value"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
{"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"}
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection was reset
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket at pos 6

d:\java>curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/basic -d '{field : "value"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
{"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"}
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection was reset
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket at pos 8

d:\java>curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/basic -d '{"field" : "value"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
{"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"}
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection was reset
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket at pos 8

Okay - just resolved this problem by removing the single quotes around the empty json '{}' became just {} and it worked (on Windows).

[adich12]

For empty data it works by only removing the quotes as stated above. But if we add some data the workaround will not work.
Here is how it worked for me on Windows:
curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/db1/0002 -d {"key1":"value1"}