Re: error while trying to change the database encoding on a database

On 2011-01-24, Geoffrey Myers <lists@serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Adrian Klaver wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion.  As it stands, we are getting different
> errors for different hex characters, thus the solution we need is the
> ability to identify the characters that won't convert from SQL_ASCII to
> UTF8.  Is there a resource that would identify these characters?

use "iconv" to strip out the invalid chacaters from the SQL and then
compare before and after.

 I think the iconv command is

  iconv -f UTF8 -t UTF8 -c


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