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Re: Special Chars
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: February 05, 2019 10:39AM

Try this ...

1. Create a table with the same structure as the original table except that the problem string column is CHARSET utf8mb4.

2. Copy data into the new table using this expression for the problem column:

... CONVERT( CONVERT( colname USING binary ) USING utf8mb4 ) . . .

If that fails, the data is munged, you're in for some work, see ...

http://www.bluebox.net/news/2009/07/mysql_encoding/

http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/charcoll

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Norbert Strzata
February 05, 2019 03:30AM
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