Re: problem converting database to UTF-8

On Thursday 22 January 2009, Vladimir Konrad <vk(at)dsl(dot)pipex(dot)com> wrote:
> > iconv does not change the database encodings embedded in the file
> > (and it is quite large).
>
> Have you read the manual?
>
> file A pathname of an input file. If no file operands are
> specified, or if a file operand is '-', the standard input shall
> be used.
>
>
> cat the-source-dump.sql | iconv -t utf8 - > my-converted.sql
>
> Size should not matter in this case...

Yeah it does. iconv buffers everything in memory, as I recall.

However, you can "split" the file into manageable pieces, run each through
iconv, and recombine afterwards.

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