script to convert mysql dump sql file into format that can be imported into sqlite3 db

Question

I have an export SQL file containing tables and data from MySQL and I want to import it into a Sqlite 3 DB.

What is the best way to do that?

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Answer 1

I had an issue with the mysql db being ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1). When did the conversion to sqlite3 assumed the data was UTF-8 resulting in decoding errors.

It was easy to fix with this:

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 mysql_dump_file > mysql_dump_file_utf8

Incase this helps someone.