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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Mac OS Roman import?
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In response to Mac OS Roman import?  (Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>)
Responses Re: Mac OS Roman import?  (Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com>)
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Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com> writes:
> I find myself needing to regularly import data encoded as Mac OS Roman
> (yes, it is coming from an Macintosh OS 9 system) into a UTF-8
> PostgreSQL database.  Any advice on how to do so, since Mac OS Roman
> is (reasonably enough) not one of PG's standard character encodings?

Maybe iconv knows about it?  Or it might be that it's close enough to
ISO 8859-something that you could get away with pretending it's that.

            regards, tom lane

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