Re: ascii to utf-8

Tommy Gildseth wrote:
> Tom Hart wrote:
>> Hello everybody. I hope your week's going well so far.
>>
>> I built our data mine in postgreSQL around 3 months ago and I've been
>> working with it since. Postgres is great and I'm really enjoying it,
>> but I've hit a bit of a hitch. Originally (and against pgAdmin's good
>> advice, duh!) I set up the database to use ASCII encoding. However we
>> have a large base of Spanish speaking members and services, and we
>> need utf-8
> ...snip snip
>>
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid byte
>> sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc52f
>> HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match
>> the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by
>> "client_encoding".
>> CONTEXT: COPY transaction, line 209487
>> WARNING: errors ignored on restore: 1
>>
>
> Try editing your dump-file and change the line which reads "SET
> client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII';" to "SET client_encoding = 'LATIN1';"
>
I tried making the changes you specified with notepad, wordpad, gVim,
vim and emacs and in each case pgAdmin (and pg_restore) complain about
the dump header being corrupted. This has been kind of a pain since the
file is ~ 65mb and it's difficult to load something that size into a
text editor. I also did a head > file, edited the file, and then did
head -n -10 >> file, but once again I had no success. Is there an easy
way of doing this, or perhaps a different way of solving the problem?

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