> iconv does not change the database encodings embedded in the file
> (and it is quite large).
Have you read the manual?
file A pathname of an input file. If no file operands are
specified, or if a file operand is '-', the standard input shall
be used.
cat the-source-dump.sql | iconv -t utf8 - > my-converted.sql
Size should not matter in this case...
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