Re: How to know that foreign characters are being inserted as utf-8?

[Peter Gulutzan]

Hi,

> When I run what you suggested
> select 'Ελληνικά',hex('Ελληνικά');

> It displays them properly. Does this mean those characters in the database are
> still not being saved as utf8?

It means you should SELECT HEX(column_name) FROM table.
If the ñ in Español is something other than C3B1, then ... yup.

Peter Gulutzan
MySQL / Sun