CLI option to give encoding format to 'mongoimport '

Question

Does mongoimport cli command support only UTF-8 format files?

Is there a way to provide encoding format so that, it can accept non-utf-8 files, without we manually converting each file to UTF-8?

Answer 1

This is one way of doing it on Linux/Unix. You could use iconv to convert non-utf8 to utf8 and then use mongoimport on the converted file:

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf-8 myfile.csv > myfileutf8.csv

man iconv should give you more details about options

Also, Import CSV file (contains some non-UTF8 characters) in MongoDb discusses some options for windows.