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Changing encoding

From
Carol Walter
Date:
Hello,

I have some databases that are designated as "SQL_ASCII" encoding.  I
need them to be "UTF-8".  I know that "SQL_ASCII" is really the
absence of encoding.  Is there a way to do this?

Carol

Re: Changing encoding

From
"Marcelo Costa"
Date:
Hi Carol

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> wrote:
Hello,

I have some databases that are designated as "SQL_ASCII" encoding.  I need them to be "UTF-8".  I know that "SQL_ASCII" is really the absence of encoding.  Is there a way to do this?

Try use pg_dump on your ASCII database with option -E

ex.: pgdump -U user database -E UTF8 -f filename.sql


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Marcelo Costa