UTF-8 character encoding problem
Posted by: Mehdi Hasan
Date: July 01, 2007 06:15PM

Hello,
I run an online forum which uses MySQL 4.1.21 database. At the time of installation, the database was in latin1_swedish_ci bu default. Later, users began to put UTF-8 encoded characters in the forum.

The problem is, when I dump and restore the database using phpMyAdmin, all UTF-8 encoded texts become garbage. So again I used phpMyAdmin to alter the database, its tables and necessary fields to utf8_general_ci collation. But no luck!

I need to change my hosting. How can I dump & restore the database correctly? I don't have much idea on mySql operations so a bit detailed guide will be helpful.

Thanks in advance for your kind help (I need it badly, please).

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