Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA3596A@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Responses Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem  (Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild@freesurf.fr>)
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> > 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

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