Demonic Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Pretty sure I use MySQL 5 on my WAMP2 server at home and I was reading a post about default utf character sets and what if I already created my tables? If I altered the tables to utf-8 would the data be fixed correctly (as in make sure characters are using its correct character set) or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 I think not. It's better to export data, recreate tables, and reimport data as utf-8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 If you're going "up" (adding characters), then it's fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AjBaz100 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Or you could just try it with some new tables, create one that is not UTF-8, insert some UTF-8 characters in there and then convert it to UTF-8?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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