Re: Fwd: Mixing Latin and UTF

2010-04-14 Thread walter harms


Huib schrieb:
 
 Hello,
 
 I hope that this is the right list.
 
 I have a database that has been running for years in latin1 but a
 software update changed it in to utf8 that would be no big deal if we
 know it right away so we could change the database.
 
 The big problem is that the database has been running for 2 months as
 utf8 and it is causing problems now. I have like 500mb latin1 and
 100mb utf in the database.
 
 How can I convert the database to utf8 without breaking it?
 

in short that is bad,
i would do a unload/load cycle
you can easly use recode/iconv or friends to convert the problem
is that you have to check carefully no to convert to much.
If you can unload only the Latin1 that would be a great help,
also having binary data will make thinks more complicated.

re,
 wh

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Fwd: Mixing Latin and UTF

2010-04-13 Thread Huib


Hello,

I hope that this is the right list.

I have a database that has been running for years in latin1 but a
software update changed it in to utf8 that would be no big deal if we
know it right away so we could change the database.

The big problem is that the database has been running for 2 months as
utf8 and it is causing problems now. I have like 500mb latin1 and
100mb utf in the database.

How can I convert the database to utf8 without breaking it?

Best

Huib