Thread: pg_dumpall and convert from LATIN1 to UTF-8?

Hi Everyone,

I have used pg_dumpall on a database that was created with LATIN1
encoding and has a whole bunch of messy latin1 data in it.

I want to restore this data to a new db with UTF-8 encoding, with the
data converted so the 8859-1 characters display properly.

How should I go about doing this?

Thanks,

Joseph

hi,

Joseph wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have used pg_dumpall on a database that was created with LATIN1
> encoding and has a whole bunch of messy latin1 data in it.
>
> I want to restore this data to a new db with UTF-8 encoding, with the
> data converted so the 8859-1 characters display properly.
>
> How should I go about doing this?

try function convert (and check CREATE CONVERSION)

c.

On Срд, 2004-02-25 at 06:29 -0800, Joseph wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have used pg_dumpall on a database that was created with LATIN1
> encoding and has a whole bunch of messy latin1 data in it.
>
> I want to restore this data to a new db with UTF-8 encoding, with the
> data converted so the 8859-1 characters display properly.
>
> How should I go about doing this?

Pipe the dump through iconv.

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Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>