April 2008
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When MySQL encodings go bad
In this MySQL forum post, Erik runs into the confusing situation whereby he has to tell mysqldump to use the Latin-1 character set in order to get UTF-8 output. Bizarre magic? Well, no.
In any database-driven application, the encoding needs to be specified in several different places. If you’re a good developer, you’ll be using some Unicode encoding, quite possibly UTF-8. The...
