On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Exactly what does vim do that iconv does not? Fuzzy encoding sounds > scary to me. >
Right. It actually makes assumptions about the source encoding. People who care about their data need, unfortunately, to spend a bit of time on this problem. I've been discussing the same issue on the slony1 mailing list, because the issue can affect people's ability upgrade using slony1. http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/slony1-general/2005-December/003430.html It would be good if had the script I suggest in the email: A script which identifies non-utf-8 characters and provides some context, line numbers, etc, will greatly speed up the process of remedying the situation. Thoughts? Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
