Comments on: Converting MySQL Database Contents to UTF-8

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:13:20 +0000

Make sure you're not confusing collation with the actual encoding the content is in.

By: yash

yash — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:56:54 +0000

this wordpress plugin (http://www.sociable.es/facebook-wordpress-plugin-3-0/) creating Unicode bug

when i submit my blog link to facebook it display like odd charecters

“¤œ¤¾¤‡¤¤¤œ¤¾¤‡¤¤…”

the original text is “डिजाइनदार राखियों की…”

and when i uninstall this plugin, everything working fine

my blog: http://www.shreshthbharat.in (please try to post a link on facebook you’ll see odd character in preview )

there are some tables are in latin1_swedish_ci i change it to “utf8_unicode_ci” but still problem is there

i donot want to leave this powerful plugin

please tell me how do i fix this bug

By: Ziad Rahhal

Ziad Rahhal — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:54:16 +0000

I correct my previous post: the method that Stephanie used works fine even with Foreign Keys. However, iconv didn’t convert from latin1(iso-8859-1) to utf8 in my case. I haven’t investigated iconv yet. What I did is manually change every occurrence of “latin-1″ to “utf8″ in the .sql file.

By: Ziad Rahhal

Ziad Rahhal — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:19:07 +0000

Hi,

@Bimal: be careful from Foreign Keys when you do this: alter table wordpress_table_1 change latin_column utf_column text character set utf8 collate utf8_bin NOT NULL;

I tried something similar like: alter table convert to character set utf8 collate utf8_general_ci; and it doesn't work at all if you have foreign keys in the tables in question. You need to drop foreign keys first. The error is (lets say your table is called ): ERROR 1025 (HY000): Error on rename of './stockUTF8/#sql-3ea_17' to './stockUTF8/items' (errno: 150)

And probably the method that Stephanie supplied won't work with Foreign Keys. I am not sure, I need to test it with my tables that have foreign keys set.

By: Eroan

Eroan — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:43:57 +0000

Thanks for these mysql tips, I’ve been looking for a solution with UTF8 for more tnah 2 days… I thought there was no solution :/

By: ich habe utf8 gemacht. › zeugs.

ich habe utf8 gemacht. › zeugs. — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:27:26 +0000

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By: Pasando tablas de latin1 a UTF8

Pasando tablas de latin1 a UTF8 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:29:59 +0000

[...] es como mantenemos todas las tablas que podemos ya. Encontré diversas pistas sobre conversiones como ésta, haciendo uso de ICONV para convertir el texto del dump, pero me costó un rato darme cuenta de que [...]

By: Srinivas Nalla

Srinivas Nalla — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:05:15 +0000

This a one of Important Site I am looking for. It helped me alot to bring the data of iso88591 to utf8. Thanks to the initiator and for all the pains underwent to prepare this doc

By: MySQL + UTF-8 = Not So Obvious « Ward’s Words

MySQL + UTF-8 = Not So Obvious « Ward’s Words — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:56:23 +0000

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By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:00:32 +0000

Great! I was having the same host header error on the validator. I had actually forgotten where the host header came from but your post cleared it up for me.

-Thanks