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To: Gavin Sherry <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Upcoming PG re-releases
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 17:44:34 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Gavin Sherry wrote:
> 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.
I think the best we can do is the "iconv -c with the diff" idea, which
is already in the release notes. I suppose we could merge the iconv and
diff into a single command, but I don't see a portable way to output the
iconv output to stdout., /dev/stdin not being portable.
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