John Francis Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've downloaded 4.1 and am experimenting with a thai-english word list > to discover just how this will work with mysql. > > So far I'm not having success. > > First I tried > create table words ( > thai varchar(30) character set tis620, > thai_sense int, > english varchar(30) character set latin1, > english_sense int > ) ; > > But when I tried > insert into words_utf8 ( > thai_word, > thai_sense, > english_word, > english_sense > ) values ( '???', 1, 'water', 1) ; > > I got a broken connection.
You created a table 'words', but tried to insert data into table words_utf8. > > I figured this was because I was entering utf8 and expecting tis620. > > So I > CREATE TABLE words_utf8 ( > thai_word varchar(30), > thai_sense int, > english_word varchar(30), > english_sense int > ) TYPE=MyISAM CHARSET=utf8 > > (coincidentally I had to edit the 'invariant' output of 'show create > table' to make this work. There were extraneous forward quotes around > the table and column names that made mysql choke.) > > And then the simple insertion worked ok, but the output from a select > > mysql> select * from words_utf8 ; > +-----------+------------+--------------+---------------+ > | thai_word | thai_sense | english_word | english_sense | > +-----------+------------+--------------+---------------+ > | ??????? | 1 | water | 1 | > | ??????? | 1 | water | 1 | > | ??????? | 1 | water | 1 | > +-----------+------------+--------------+---------------+ > 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) > > shows unrenderable characters for the Thai. > > So what do I do about this? > What is your client character set? -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
