Re: problem converting database to UTF-8

On Thursday 22 January 2009, Vladimir Konrad wrote:
> > iconv does not change the database encodings embedded in the file
> > (and it is quite large).
>
> Have you read the manual?
>
> file A pathname of an input file. If no file operands are
> specified, or if a file operand is '-', the standard input shall
> be used.
>
>
> cat the-source-dump.sql | iconv -t utf8 - > my-converted.sql
>
> Size should not matter in this case...
>
> V

You have not understood what I said. I ran iconv, and it changes the
encoding of the data, but not the ENCODING= statements that are
embedded in the datastream. Yes I can change those with sed, but
I do not know what else I need to change. There must be an easier
way.

David