## Raivo Rebane (raivore55@xxxxxxxxx): > Raivo@DESKTOP-69FUU49 /cygdrive/f/3D-data/Kataster > > $ cat kataster.sql | less > > > > <FF><FE>S^@E^@T^@ ^@C^@L^@I^@E^@N^@T^@_^@E^@N^@C^@O^@D^@I^@N^@G^@ ^@T^@O^@ That's a BOM and the rest looks like UTF-16 (or UCS-2). You can use recode (also available in Cygwin) to convert that. You could also use shp2pgsql in Cygwin and be done with that (Windows is a quite bloated bootloader for Cygwin, but you do you)). Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space