I'm trying to store the symbol (R) (that's the registered trademark symbol) in my database, but I get a weird Ctrl-A (^A) character whenever I try. At first, I thought it was because I was calling htmlentities without passing in "UTF-8" as the last argument, but that only solved one of my problems. Then I spent some time looking at encodings, and I'm trying to figure out if the fact that the charset is set to latin1 is the reason why.
Assuming it is, is there anything I can do to avoid having to dump the database and recreate it with the other encoding? I've spent some time tonight looking on the web and at MySQL's documentation on charsets and these are the options I've come up with. alter table TABLE_NAME convert to character set utf8; I'm assuming this is just a regular alter table, which means I'm going to have to take down my server for the duration of the change, which can take long periods of time. http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/01/turning_mysql_data_in_latin1_t.html This essentially is dump and recreate the db. iconv This was mentioned somewhere, but no one had a concrete implementation. Also, are there any gotchas in doing this? I assume I should check if my mysql has support for UTF-8, that I need to issue SET NAMES 'utf8'; or put it into my.cnf, and that my php code needs to output the headers with UTF-8 as well. Thanks, Waynn -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
