UTF8 conversion

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Sansom
Having done my upgrade from version 3 to 5, I'm looking forward to the benefits of language support beyond the confines of Western Europe. However, it seems I need to convert the database I have now. We have material in the database at the moment in English, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Span

Re: latin1 ->utf8 conversion

2006-02-02 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Start from reading this part of the manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset.html > From my understanding, the database itself never do any conversion, > meaning if you insert utf8 data into tables declared as latin1 it > doesn't really matter if you retrieve the data as ut

latin1 ->utf8 conversion

2006-02-02 Thread mel list_php
Hi list, I guess this is a classic problem...! I found that on the web: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/9022?wlg=yes, where basically the guy did " dump data, change the charset in the table definition and reinsert the records into an utf8 database" and ended up with some problems... I saw