Mysql ERROR: ASCII '\0' while importing sql file on linux server

Question

I am getting following error while importing sql file

ERROR: ASCII \'\\0\' appeared in the statement, but this is not allowed unless option --binary-mode is         


        

Answer 1

I encountered this problem,the sql file was in a valid ISCII format, I solved as the following:

1- in shell use file command to detect type of data contained in the dump file:

file db.sql

got output like following:

db.sql: Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators

2- convert the existing dump file to UTF8 (ASCII) using iconv:

iconv -f utf-16 -t utf-8 db.sql > db_utf8.sql

then import the new file.