Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem

> > I have done this in Delphi using it's built in UTF8 encoding and
> > decoding routines. You can get a free copy of Delphi
> Turbo Explorer
> > which includes components for MS SQL server and ODBC, so it
> would be
> > pretty straight forward to get this working.
> >
> > The actual method in Delphi is system.UTF8Encode(widestring). This
> > will encode unicode to UTF8 which is compatible with a
> Postgresql UTF8 database.
>
> Ah, that's useful to know. Windows just doesn't have the same
> quantity of tools installed as a *nix platform.

If your file is small enough, you can just open it up in Notepad and
re-save it as UTF8. It might play funny with the BOMs though
(byte-order-marks).

There is also, IIRC, an iconv binary available for Windows that should
be able to do such a conversion. Can't rememebr where thuogh :-)

//Magnus