Solved... :) What I did is: 1.I changed the selected columns charset to utf8 but other columns, table and database where using default charset. 2.Before doing a simple insert of parameters received from browser into mysql, I executed "set names 'utf8'" on the same connection and again while selecting as well. 3.It worked even after removing <meta> tag from the head tag as well <-- plz through some light y it got displayed at the browser ?
@fsb thanks a lot for ur valuable i/p @Gavin I wrote my stub refering to that link only cheers! Regards, Ningappa Koneri mLifestyle | www.comviva.com -----Original Message----- From: fsb [mailto:f...@thefsb.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:35 AM To: Ningappa Koneri; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Regarding storing non-english chars in mysql you can specify the character encoding (called CHARSET in mysql) and collation on a per column, per table or per database level. e.g. CREATE DATABASE foo CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; or CREATE TABLE foo ( ... ) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; or CREATE TABLE foo ( bar varchar(128) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL); mysql's default character encoding is latin1. for mysql's collations, see: http://www.collation-charts.org/ i wouldn't use utf8 indiscriminately, only for columns that need it -- indexes need 3 bytes per character on utf8 columns. (utf16 would be better in that regard!) don't forget to set session system variables, e.g. using SET NAMES or with your api. On 1/18/10 2:44 PM, "Gavin Towey" <gto...@ffn.com> wrote: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset.html > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ningappa Koneri [mailto:ningappa.kon...@comviva.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:32 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Regarding storing non-english chars in mysql > > Dear all, > > I have a problem in migrating a GUI app(displays multi lingual data like > Arabic) which currently uses oracle as backend db to mysql (5.1). Currenly in > oracle I am using NVARCHAR datatype to store the Arabic chars. How do I > incorporate the same functionality in mysql ? 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