International SQL-Ledger Network Association

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:

   pg_dump SQL_ASCII_database_name > SQL_ASCII_database_dump.sql

Next check content of your file by typing:

  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:

  cat SQL_ASCII_database_dump.sql | recode iso-8859-1..u8 > UTF8_database_dump.sql

Check the result by typing:

  file UTF8_database_dump.sql