Re: identifying multi-byte characters / coverting

2004-07-16 Thread Abs
hi that may be but it's got weird beahviour. for example, when u get that in an edit box (like the one u compose mail in) it looks like: "’" (the upper comma). but when i read ur mail, it appeared as it's html character code. in fact, while reading this u may see it as the character code and not th

identifying multi-byte characters / coverting

2004-07-14 Thread Abs
hi when ppl paste from MS Word to a text field in a form, characters like apostrophe before s (e.g. It's) in docs looks like ’ (it looks like a comma but at the top). in a mysqldump, i can see that it's stored as ’. i tried editing the in a text box and when i reprint it, it's looks like it did.

Re: multi-byte characters

2002-07-03 Thread Joel Rees
> Hello, > > I have a bunch of text with Japanese in it that uses shift_jis encoding. > My initial tests show that this encoding has the same problems in MySQL > as it does in Perl: it gives false matches. > > I have to convert the data to the EUC enconding (I think I've seen it > called ejis i

multi-byte characters

2002-07-03 Thread Paul Flint
Hello, I have a bunch of text with Japanese in it that uses shift_jis encoding. My initial tests show that this encoding has the same problems in MySQL as it does in Perl: it gives false matches. I have to convert the data to the EUC enconding (I think I've seen it called ejis in a MySQL contex