> > I have done this in Delphi using it's built in UTF8 encoding and > > decoding routines. You can get a free copy of Delphi > Turbo Explorer > > which includes components for MS SQL server and ODBC, so it > would be > > pretty straight forward to get this working. > > > > The actual method in Delphi is system.UTF8Encode(widestring). This > > will encode unicode to UTF8 which is compatible with a > Postgresql UTF8 database. > > Ah, that's useful to know. Windows just doesn't have the same > quantity of tools installed as a *nix platform. If your file is small enough, you can just open it up in Notepad and re-save it as UTF8. It might play funny with the BOMs though (byte-order-marks). There is also, IIRC, an iconv binary available for Windows that should be able to do such a conversion. Can't rememebr where thuogh :-) //Magnus