Variable Length Types and utf-8 conversion
Posted by: Luke W
Date: May 12, 2005 09:55PM

Using the guide:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/charset-conversion.html

I am currently upgrading our old mysql 3.2 database over to 4.1 as we _need_ utf-8 :)

I realize it is a 2 step process, for example, if the col type is VARCHAR(50):
while still in mysql 3.2:
ALTER TABLE groups MODIFY page_title BINARY(50);

then once it's on 4.1:
ALTER TABLE groups MODIFY page_title VARCHAR(50) CHARACTER SET utf8;

First of all.....this is correct right? to ensure DB integrity?

Simple, however we also use TEXT and LONGTEXT, ie variable length types......I need to fill in the blanks:
LONGTEXT(???blank???):

while still in mysql 3.2:
ALTER TABLE groups MODIFY page_contents BINARY(????blank????);

then once it's on 4.1:
ALTER TABLE groups MODIFY page_contents LONGTEXT(????blank????) CHARACTER SET utf8;

I am sure the answer is simple, thankyou in advance.

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