> > cat the-source-dump.sql | iconv -t utf8 - > my-converted.sql
> >
> > Size should not matter in this case...
>
> Yeah it does. iconv buffers everything in memory, as I recall.
Just found an alternative - "uconv" command (part of ICU project):
http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/intro.html
(not sure if it is in debian, but it does not buffer entire file when
used in a pipe).
Vlad