> One thing I've done in the past to verify this exact issue, is to
> simply run something like:
>
> # mysql -e "select fields from table" > output.txt
>
> - making sure that the the output contains some non-ASCII characters -
> preferably non-Latin too.
>
> Then open output.txt in a browser and set the character
> encoding to UTF-8.
> [View->Character Encoding->UTF-8 in Firefox].
>
> If the content renders properly [provided you've got the right fonts
> obviously], then you can be sure that the content went in properly.

Or alternatively there's a nice Solaris 10 utility - "auto_ef" [auto
encoding-finder], to which you pass a file as a parameter and it will
tell you the encoding.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2246/6n4i34qee?a=view#DESCRIPTION

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> > > Subject: Mmultiple languages in the MySQL database
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> > >
> > >
> > > How do I store multiple languages in the MySQL database.
> Is there any
> > > configuration in MySql database server to support
> multilingual data.
> > > Normally if I use UTF-8 character encoding in database, it
> > > supports multiple
> > > languages. But it is not happening in MySql.
> > >  Thanks
> > > Krish
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