Re: Can't select/inserting/updating some Chinese Character.

[Vladan Popovic]

I have the same problem for many days now - the temporary solution that i have applied is to use varbinary instead of varchar. It's a dumb solution but i need to get a job done.


select version() gives 4.1.12

result of SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'CHAR%' ?
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+

SHOW CREATE TABLE shows a syntax error