**MARIADB-CONV**(1) MariaDB Database System **MARIADB-CONV**(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

mariadb-conv - character set conversion utility for MariaDB

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**mariadb-conv \[OPTION...] \[FILE...]**

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

**mariadb-conv** is a character set conversion utility for MariaDB.

**mariadb-conv** supports the following options.

•**--from=name**, **-f name**

Specifies the encoding of the input.

•**--to=name**, **-t name**

Specifies the encoding of the output.

•**--continue**, **-c**

Silently ignore conversion errors.

•**--delimiter=name**,

Treat the specified characters as delimiters.

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

Copyright 2025 MariaDB Foundation

This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Documentation, available online at https://mariadb.com/docs/server/clients-and-utilities/administrative-tools/mariadb-conv

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

5 March 2025 MariaDB 11.8

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