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Command-Line Tools

The shell in which command-line tools are executed must use a character encoding that is compatible with your database.

If you are using a UNIX system that is configured to use UTF-8 as its default encoding, command-line tools must be executed in a modified command shell that is using a character encoding compatible with server. The method to change the character encoding of your command shell will differ by system.

As an example, for Linux environments running Gnome, the gnome-terminal application offers selection of the character encoding on its main menu. For Western languages, this would typically be ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15.

An alternative approach is to change your entire Linux system to not use UTF-8 encoding.