Comments on: Convert character set to utf8 in MySQL

By: WordPress 2.9 Illegal Mix of Collations in Database | semioticpixels scratch pad

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:21:02 +0000

[...] following 4 queries are lifted directly from Haidong Ji via the Wordpress Codex. I added the pipe out to text file. Note that the path to mysql executable [...]

By: Haidong Ji

Haidong Ji — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:37:42 +0000

Cheers, Joe.

Yeah, if a browser forces a particular encoding, it will display gibberish.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:42:50 +0000

Hi, thx for your work – it was a starter but the problem is more complex as the browsersettings can ignore the websites needs. So if you set your browser not to autorecognize the websites coding – rather than to a fixed setting this will lead also after a clean-up to a messed database. So i think it should be fixed in the post-message in Wordpress.

yours Joe

By: Sanitizing Wordpress UTF-8 – or Howto get rid of mixed Latin1 and UTF8 mysql exports / Joes Blog

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:39:22 +0000

[...] Actually my atantion comes to some weird characters in my wordpress blog. Such as Ã¼ or Ã¶ as represantants of ä and ö. So i had a look into my mysql-db and saw that it was still on latin1. On my way to the clearance i got over that explanation. But still all howtos doesn’t work out for me. There are others allready had a look into it like fischerlander or Ji’s Blog. [...]

By: ипотпал

ипотпал — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:57:06 +0000

Very good articles )

By: Haidong Ji

Haidong Ji — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:24:46 +0000

Tomas,

Not too sure what you mean by that. Short of having access to the server and files, it is hard to see where exactly the problem is.

Daniel,

Sharing with and benefiting from each other is my goal. I am really glad it helped. Cheers!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:42:34 +0000

Hi Haidong Ji,

I adapted your script for converting a latin1 WP MU site into UTF8 and it worked perfectly. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge –and beside, it’s a beautiful solution;-)

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:13:50 +0000

hi haidong，

I have a question, your scripts seems can not solve the problem of foreign key with ‘char’ column inside, any suggestion ?

By: Haidong Ji

Haidong Ji — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:58:06 +0000

You are welcome, Louie. Cheers!

By: louie

louie — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:13:54 +0000

Thanks for this solution to converting a mysql database to utf8 it rocks.

had one slight problem i had a table called interval , so altered the sql slightly to quote around it like so `interval`

then worked perfectly