On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Exactly what does vim do that iconv does not? Fuzzy encoding sounds
> scary to me.
>
Right. It actually makes assumptions about the source encoding. People who
care about their data need, unfortunately, to spend a bit of time on this
problem. I've been discussing the same issue on the slony1 mailing list,
because the issue can affect people's ability upgrade using slony1.
http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/slony1-general/2005-December/003430.html
It would be good if had the script I suggest in the email:
A script which identifies non-utf-8 characters and provides somecontext, line numbers, etc, will greatly speed up the
processofremedying the situation.
Thoughts?
Gavin