Changing Mysql Character Coding

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barabanovas
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Changing Mysql Character Coding

Post by barabanovas » Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:45 am

Long ago phpmyadmin had default encoding - "latin-swedish". I installed my joomla with this encoding. Now I would like to change it to UTF-8. Any suggestions? Because somehow I have to apply changes to all mysql data which is very big now.

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Re: Changing Mysql Character Coding

Post by umarzuki » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:30 am

create a script to use ALTER DATABASE and ALTER TABLE

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Re: Changing Mysql Character Coding

Post by xfsgpr » Sat Feb 28, 2015 5:56 pm

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ALTER DATABASE databasename CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6115 ... n-to-utf-8


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