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From Markus Bertheau
Subject Re: pg_dumpall and convert from LATIN1 to UTF-8?
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Msg-id 1078048236.1985.0.camel@yarrow.bertheau.de
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In response to pg_dumpall and convert from LATIN1 to UTF-8?  (someone@arbitrary.org (Joseph))
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On Срд, 2004-02-25 at 06:29 -0800, Joseph wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have used pg_dumpall on a database that was created with LATIN1
> encoding and has a whole bunch of messy latin1 data in it.
>
> I want to restore this data to a new db with UTF-8 encoding, with the
> data converted so the 8859-1 characters display properly.
>
> How should I go about doing this?

Pipe the dump through iconv.

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Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>

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