On Dec 6, 2003, at 14:05, Evan Prodromou wrote:
EP> 3. iconv the dump file to UTF-8. [...] EP> 8. Import the data dump back in.OK, so, this won't work. linkscc has binary data in it that mucks up the dump file.
I think maybe skipping the linkscc table, and rebuilding it afterwards, might work.
The only tables that should contain binary data at present are linkscc (gzipped data) and math (a binary hash value). Both of these tables' contents are volatile: you can just clear them out, and they will be regenerated when needed.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)