On Wednesday 24 August 2005 20:01, MightyData wrote:
> What is the proper procedure to change the table (or database encoding)
> from latin1 to UTF-8 with MySQL 4.1.x? My thought is to export the data to
> text file, drop the table, recreate the table with the proper encoding and
> then import the data. Is there a better way or something I missed?

ALTER TABLE <TABLE> CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET 'utf8' COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci'

that's how we did it.

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Kind regards,

 Andreas Streichardt

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