Hi Andy
That seems to work!! Boy what a journey. And thank you Devin for your help.
Regards
Kaveh
On 26 July 2017 at 08:03, AndyP via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I had the same problems a while ago, but got it sorted with the following.
>
> *Before* you do any interactions with the db, add this line.
>
> *revExecuteSQL MyConnectionID, "SET NAMES 'utf8'"*
>
> "SET NAMES 'utf8'" is needed whenever you want to send/retrieve data
> to/from the server having characters that cannot be represented in pure
> ASCII, like 'ñ' or 'ö'.
>
> Then retrieve the data
>
> *put textDecode("SELECT * FROM MyTable","UTF-8") into fld "MyField"*
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