Use pg_dump to dump the db and use iconv on the generated file:
iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 mydb.dump -o mydb_utf8.dump
Wouldn't it be adequate to set the client encoding to SQL_ASCII in the dump file (if that was infact the encoding on the original database)?
SET client_encoding TO SQL_ASCII;
And then let the database do the conversion? I would think since the db is UTF8 and the client is claiming SQL_ASCII then it would convert the data to UTF8.
I have done this in the past with SQL dumps that had characters that UTF8 didn't like, and I just added the "SET client_encoding TO LATIN1;" since I knew the source encoding was LATIN1.
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Chad
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