Re: Is this encoding error correct/possible?

Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl> writes:

> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:55 -0500, Kris Jurka wrote:
>> Yes, but this requires a dump and restore.  Additionally since you have
>> some non-unicode data in there, it may require running something like
>> iconv over the data before reloading it.  This can be especially messy if
>> you've got multiple encodings in there already.  It all depends on the
>> uniformity of your existing data.

> Can you give me a pointer where I can find any info about such
> procedure?

GNU recode is a simple but great tool to convert text files, you may
find it useful.  It seems to be similar to iconv in purpose (I don't
know iconv).