MySQL 4.0 -> 5.0, unicode

Thursday, 03. 2. 2006  –  Category: all, sw

Things: Loading a ISO-8559-1 encoded dump into a UTF-8 database breaks, fields are truncated at the first non-valid character. Not terribly surprising, but MySQL is silent about the breakage. Content which looks like, and is declared, ISO-8559-1 might actually get rendered by browsers as CP1252 (aka MS-ANSI WINDOWS-1252) The difference between these two are that […]