Re: Is this encoding error correct/possible?

From: Marc Herbert <Marc(dot)Herbert(at)emicnetworks(dot)com>
To: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is this encoding error correct/possible?
Date: 2005-08-23 16:56:48
Message-ID: 87irxwmw1b.fsf_-_@meije.emic.fr
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Joost Kraaijeveld <J(dot)Kraaijeveld(at)Askesis(dot)nl> writes:

> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:55 -0500, Kris Jurka wrote:
>> Yes, but this requires a dump and restore. Additionally since you have
>> some non-unicode data in there, it may require running something like
>> iconv over the data before reloading it. This can be especially messy if
>> you've got multiple encodings in there already. It all depends on the
>> uniformity of your existing data.

> Can you give me a pointer where I can find any info about such
> procedure?

GNU recode is a simple but great tool to convert text files, you may
find it useful. It seems to be similar to iconv in purpose (I don't
know iconv).

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