Re: [GENERAL] Encoding change question...

2010-08-16 Thread Karl Denninger
Peter C. Lai wrote: > The doublequotes isn't UTF8 it's people copying and pasting from Microsoft > stuff, which is WIN-1252. So try to use that with iconv instead of utf8 > > On 2010-08-16 12:40:03PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > >> So I have myself a nice pickle here. >> >> I've got a data

Re: [GENERAL] Encoding change question...

2010-08-16 Thread Peter C. Lai
The doublequotes isn't UTF8 it's people copying and pasting from Microsoft stuff, which is WIN-1252. So try to use that with iconv instead of utf8 On 2010-08-16 12:40:03PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > So I have myself a nice pickle here. > > I've got a database which was originally created

[GENERAL] Encoding change question...

2010-08-16 Thread Karl Denninger
So I have myself a nice pickle here. I've got a database which was originally created with SQL_ASCII for the encoding (anything goes text fields) Unfortunately, I have a bunch of data that was encoded in UTF-8 that's in an RSS feed that I need to load into said database. iconv barfs all over