Exactly what does vim do that iconv does not? Fuzzy encoding sounds scary to me.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gavin Sherry wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > Nice, updated. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > I think my suggestion from the other day is useful also. > > --- > > Omar Kilani and I have spent a few hours looking at the problem. For > situations where there is a lot of invalid encoding, manual fixing is just > not viable. The vim project has a kind of fuzzy encoding conversion which > accounts for a lot of the non-UTF8 sequences in UTF8 data. You can use vim > to modify your text dump as follows: > > vim -c ":wq! ++enc=utf8 fixed.dump" original.dump > > --- > > I think this is a viable option for people with a non-trivial amount of > data and don't see manual fixing or potentially losing data as a viable > option. > > Thanks, > > Gavin > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
