Re: Getting strange characters using latin1 with latin1_swedish_ci

[George Miguel]

I had this same problem after an upgrade. Using SELECT HEX... above helped me verify that the data was stored correctly in latin1 and the problem was somewhere else. If you have this problem, it simply means your data is stored correctly, but whatever interface you're using to communicate with the database is munging it.

I set:
init-connect="SET NAMES latin1"
and
default-character-set=latin1

in the [mysqld] section of the my.cnf file, and everythying worked fine.