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From: Gavin Sherry <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Upcoming PG re-releases
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:45:51 +1100 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> Nice, updated.
>
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>

I think my suggestion from the other day is useful also.

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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

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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



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