Any hints lantin1 utf-8

Would you please give any suggestions or hints about storing data into
MySQL.

I have a site where I use MySQL database to store usually Arabic texts. I
use a custom contorl panel to store/retrieve the Arabic texts from the
database. Everything up to now is OK.

But When I try to open the database directly using (say phpmyadmin) the
Arabic texts does not appear correctly. Its appears something like 'ãä ÇáÐí
äÇÕÑ ÅÓÑÇÆíáÇð ¿'.

The default charset of the database/table is latin1. I know it's a matter of
encoding used. But how can I be able to view the data directly correctly ???

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Re: Any hints lantin1 utf-8

Hi

If you're storing non-latin character in a latin-1 table you are bound
to get this problem. phpMyAdmin is simply showing you what you put
there as far as it is concerned.

You should switch to using an alternative encoding for the character set.
UTF-8 would likely be best for you. Back up all the data before making
the change, or it WILL be corrupted.

If you primarily use non-latin character sets, I'd recommend making
UTF-8 the default database character set

Niel

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Re: Any hints lantin1 utf-8

Thanks Neil,

But what would be the best way to convert my Arabic Texts which were stored
through a php script into a latin1 table back to UTF-8.

I wonder WHY is it displayed correctly when retrieved through the php
scripts (!!??)

M.



From: Niel Archer
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Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 5:56 PM


Hi

If you're storing non-latin character in a latin-1 table you are bound
to get this problem. phpMyAdmin is simply showing you what you put
there as far as it is concerned.

You should switch to using an alternative encoding for the character set.
UTF-8 would likely be best for you. Back up all the data before making
the change, or it WILL be corrupted.

If you primarily use non-latin character sets, I'd recommend making
UTF-8 the default database character set

Niel


From: Abu Mosaab
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Subject: Any hints lantin1 utf-8
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 12:48 PM


Would you please give any suggestions or hints about storing data into
MySQL.

I have a site where I use MySQL database to store usually Arabic texts. I
use a custom contorl panel to store/retrieve the Arabic texts from the
database. Everything up to now is OK.

But When I try to open the database directly using (say phpmyadmin) the
Arabic texts does not appear correctly. Its appears something like 'ãä ÇáÐí
äÇÕÑ ÅÓÑÇÆíáÇð ¿'.

The default charset of the database/table is latin1. I know it's a matter of
encoding used. But how can I be able to view the data directly correctly ???

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Re: Any hints lantin1 utf-8

Hi

I don't use phpMyAdmin myself and I can't remember if it supports UTF-8
encoding

Whichever extension that your PHP is using is likely doing a conversion.
this is something that the MySQL libraries handle.
You can use this to extract the data from the tables and save it.

As a test, dump a table's data into a file (have mysqldump, or
phpMyAdmin create insert statements for the data). Create a table with
UTF-8 encoding and attempt to process that file into it (copy/paste into
phpMyAdmin if it's not to big)

If that works, then you can go ahead and back up all your tables this
way, and enter it into your new UTF-8 ones

Without knowing more about your configuration (local/remote, versions,
etc.) I can't suggest much else.


Niel

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