Re: Encoding Conversion

On May 9, 2006 01:03 pm, jef peeraer <jef.peeraer@telenet.be> wrote:
> well i recently struggled with the same problem. After a lot of trial
> and error and reading, it seems that an ascii encoded database can't use
> its client encoding capabilities ( set client_encoding to utf8 ).
> i think the easist solution is to do a dump, recreate the database with
> a proper encoding, and restore the dump.

You also need to convert any non-ASCII encoded characters present in the
dump to UTF-8, prior to restoring it.  If you're lucky, and they're all the
same (ie. LATIN1 or something), you can use iconv to easily do that.
Remember to change the set client_encoding line in the dump file, too.

--
Alan