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Re: cannot import data which contain unicode data into database
Posted by: Rick James
Date: March 22, 2011 07:43AM

You need to tell mysql what character set the data is in. This can be done either on the command line or in my.cnf in the [client] section.

Further charset discussion:
http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/charcoll

"Unicode" is rarely used in file transfers, perhaps you mean "utf8"? (Those two are often confused.)

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