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<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
<entry>A</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>convert(<parameter>string</parameter> <type>text</type>,
+ [<parameter>src_encoding</parameter> <type>name</type>,]
+ <parameter>dest_encoding</parameter> <type>name</type>)</entry>
+ <entry><type>text</type></entry>
+ <entry>Converts string using <parameter>dest_encoding</parameter>.
+ The original encoding is specified by <parameter>src_encoding</parameter>.
+ If <parameter>src_encoding</parameter> is omitted, database encoding
+ is assumed.
+ </entry>
+ <entry>convert('text_in_unicode','UNICODE','LATIN1')</entry>
+ <entry>text_in_unicode (represented in ISO-8859-1)</entry>
+ </row>
+
<row>
<entry>initcap(<type>text</type>)</entry>
<entry><type>text</type></entry>