change file encoding before DB import

[yanyans]

Hi,
first time poster and would really appriciate your help.
a client of mine needs a file produced by his systems to be imported to our DB.
his system creates the file in an ancient encoding (hebrew-(dos)). i need to somehow turn it into a more relevant encoding such as utf-8.
is there a way to convert the file encoding as above?
thanks alot,
Yanyans.

[yanyans]

I forgot to add that this file is recreated every hour and ftp'd to me, so i need to this for an automated scripted process and not just re-encode a single file :).