Re: Upcoming PG re-releases

Exactly what does vim do that iconv does not? Fuzzy encoding sounds
scary to me.

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Gavin Sherry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> > Nice, updated.
> >
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>
> I think my suggestion from the other day is useful also.
>
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> Omar Kilani and I have spent a few hours looking at the problem. For
> situations where there is a lot of invalid encoding, manual fixing is just
> not viable. The vim project has a kind of fuzzy encoding conversion which
> accounts for a lot of the non-UTF8 sequences in UTF8 data. You can use vim
> to modify your text dump as follows:
>
> vim -c ":wq! ++enc=utf8 fixed.dump" original.dump
>
> ---
>
> I think this is a viable option for people with a non-trivial amount of
> data and don't see manual fixing or potentially losing data as a viable
> option.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gavin
>
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