Comments on: MySql Latin1 to UTF8 Conversion

By: UTF8 y latin1 en el cliente de MySQL | Neodoo Microsystems

UTF8 y latin1 en el cliente de MySQL | Neodoo Microsystems — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:15:38 +0000

[...] En otros casos, sí puede surgir la necesidad de convertir datos de la BD entre latin1 y utf8; os dejo este enlace bastante esclarecedor en http://paulkortman.com/2009/07/24/mysql-latin1-to-utf8-conversion/. [...]

By: MySQL: Converting an incorrect latin1 column to utf8 | NicJ.net

MySQL: Converting an incorrect latin1 column to utf8 | NicJ.net — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:21:32 +0000

[...] for a process that I could apply to an online database, and luckily I found some good notes by Paul Kortman and fabio, so I combined some of their ideas and automated the process for my site. I hit a couple [...]

By: UTF8 y latin1 en el cliente de MySQL | Francisco Javier Solans Benedí

UTF8 y latin1 en el cliente de MySQL | Francisco Javier Solans Benedí — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:07:55 +0000

By: Fred Choquet

Fred Choquet — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:22:11 +0000

You saved my week!

Great article. I’ve been searching the web for hours, and tried many things but never managed to convert my db without loosing windows Windows-1252 chars.

Merci beaucoup!

By: Paul Kortman

Paul Kortman — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:36:18 +0000

K I’m not sure I’m able to fully explain it, except that it worked for me. I found a bunch of examples in how it did not work for others, but this was the trick to convince it to import the content in the correct character set.

By: K

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:15:10 +0000

HI, thanks a lot for the script, I have not tried it yet but i have a question about the line right after the “final import comment”, it looks like you do the import twice and you have in comment to do the table definitions change to utf8. I am a bit confused there, does changing the table definition also change the column character-set to utf8? Thanks

By: Paul Kortman

Paul Kortman — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:56:40 +0000

Marco, I’m happy I was able to help.

Thank you for leaving a comment! My site analytics suggests you are not the only one helped by this post :)

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:00:25 +0000

U saved my life! :-)
Thank you very much…

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SEO and International Characters in Domain Names | Paul Kortman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:22:38 +0000

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