2012/09/30 11:07 -0700, Mark Phillips
The data for this table comes from a web page (charet utf8). I copy/paste word
files into gedit (on linux) and then copy/paste from gedit to a text boxes on
the web page input form. I had thought I was stripping out all the funky
characters by using a
, September 27, 2012 2:24 PM
To: Mark Phillips
Cc: Mysql List
Subject: Re: Need Help Converting Character Sets
2012/09/24 16:28 -0700, Mark Phillips
I have a table, Articles, of news articles (in English) with three
text columns for the intro, body, and caption. The data came from
Help Converting Character Sets
2012/09/24 16:28 -0700, Mark Phillips
I have a table, Articles, of news articles (in English) with three text
columns for the intro, body, and caption. The data came from a web
page, and the content was cut and pasted from other sources. I am
finding
, don't have the link handy)
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To: Mark Phillips
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Subject: Re: Need Help Converting Character Sets
2012/09/24 16:28 -0700, Mark Phillips
I have a table, Articles
2012/09/24 16:28 -0700, Mark Phillips
I have a table, Articles, of news articles (in English) with three text
columns for the intro, body, and caption. The data came from a web page,
and the content was cut and pasted from other sources. I am finding that
there are some non utf-8 characters in
To go along with what Rick is saying, this link might help you:
http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/10467/how-to-convert-control-characters-in-mysql-from-latin1-to-utf-8
I remember doing a bunch of converting HEX() control characters (such as an
apostrophe copied from a Word document) before
If you have a mixture of encodings, you are in deep doodoo.
This page describes some debugging techniques and some issues:
http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/charcoll
That apostrophe might be MicroSquish's smart quote.
Can you provide SELECT HEX(the_field) FROM... ? We (or the above page) might
