Re: Differences in UTF8 between 8.0 and 8.1

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Paul Lindner <lindner(at)inuus(dot)com>
Cc: andrew(at)supernews(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Differences in UTF8 between 8.0 and 8.1
Date: 2005-10-24 05:06:02
Message-ID: 435C6BBA.4070004@familyhealth.com.au
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> Thanks go out to John Hansen, he recommended to run the dump through iconv:
>
> iconv -c -f UTF8 -t UTF8 -o fixed.sql dump.sql
>
> This seems to strip out invalid UTF8 and will allow for a clean
> import. Someone should add this to the Release Notes/FAQ..

Yes I think that's extremely important to put in the 'upgrading/back
compatibiliy' section for these release notes.

Chris

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