On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:25:22 +0100 Khan <nbv.sa@lsinter.net> wrote:
> Bruno Lustosa wrote:
> > On 11/7/05, *Khan* <nbv.sa@lsinter.net <mailto:nbv.sa@lsinter.net>>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to convert my windows-1250 database to Unicode,
> > > UTF-8. Is there any script that can do the job?
> > 
> > What kind of database is it?
> > If it's something the likes of postgresql or mysql, you could dump
> > the database to a text file, use recode or iconv to change the file 
> > encoding, and then import it into a new unicode database.
> 
> Yes, that's just what I want to do. Database is MySQL. Can you PLS 
> explain procedure, I have never done that before.

As far as I know you can change the character set directly in  MySQL.
The data will be converted automagically. For example,

ALTER TABLE foo DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci

You can create a new table and test it with some garbage data before you
do this. And create a backup ;-)


Cheers,
Renat

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