On 11 Mar 2015, at 21:31, Felix Zandanel <fe...@zandanel.me> wrote: > > Although my MySQL installation is set up to use UTF-8 as the default charset > on every level (config, database, table and field), and the character_set_* > runtime variables all yield the value "utf8", it still seems that the mysql > client library must be instructed to actually use UTF-8 explicitly. Adding > the following statement to driver_mysql_connect() fixes the issue for me: > > mysql_options(db->mysql, MYSQL_SET_CHARSET_NAME, "utf8");
I think you can also add to /etc/my.cnf : [client] default-character-set = utf8
