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--- psql_ascii_2_utf8 [2014/10/20 14:34] – created sweitmann
+++ psql_ascii_2_utf8 [2023/02/20 14:52] (current) – sweitmann
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-===== Software packages =====
+===== Convert PostgreSQL database from SQL_ASCII to UTF8 =====
-Login to your server as "root" and install the Recode tool. In Linux Debian you do this by typing:
+Login to your server as "root" and install the 'Recode' tool. In Linux Debian you do this by typing:
      apt-get install recode
 Then switch to the "postgres" account:
      su postgres
-Now create a dump of your SQL_ASCII database:
+Now start by creating a dump of your SQL_ASCII database:
      pg_dump SQL_ASCII_database_name > SQL_ASCII_database_dump.sql
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     file SQL_ASCII_database_dump.sql
 You should get the following output:
     SQL_ASCII_database_dump.sql: ISO-8859 text
-Then you convert your ISO-8859 file to UTF8 by typing:
+Then you convert your ISO-8859 or CP1250 file to UTF8 by typing these two commands:
     cat SQL_ASCII_database_dump.sql | recode iso-8859-1..u8 > UTF8_database_dump.sql
+    iconv -f CP1250 -t UTF-8 -c <Non-ISO-extended-ASCII-FILE.sql >UTF8_database_dump.sql
 Check the result by typing:
     file UTF8_database_dump.sql
+You should now get the following output:
+    UTF8_database_dump.sql: UTF-8 Unicode text
+Now open the new UTF8_database_dump.sql file with your favourite editor and change the line:
+    SET client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII';
+to:
+    SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';
+Create a new database:
+    createdb new_UTF8_database_name
+And import the UTF8_database_dump.sql
+    psql new_UTF8_database_name < UTF8_database_dump.sql
+That's it!