MYSQL :: Version 3.23 - Russian Character Set

Unicode For Russian
I just wanted to insert Russian data in my database but while I insert it it get inserted easily, since I believe the data is inserted in the default format i.e. UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) i believe this is the default format but when i select it from database i could not get what was desired what is the solution for this, I am using Php as server side language.I get? as a result of select and while i look it in phpadmin the result is the same, is this the browser problem...which is not supporting the font.

Saving Text In Russian
I have a table with a field that is to save text in Russian. The text is
then retrieved by a PHP page. I run a query passing text in windows-1251
encoding, but when I retrieve it from the db, it shows up all wrong.
Does anyone know what the problem is?

Storing Russian Text In Table
I am using MySQL 4.0.20a. A russian user enters text in a HTML-textfield and POSTs & inserts through a PHP-script (php v.5). In what encoding is it stored in mysql? To me, it doesn't look russian but like this:

Ã‚Ã»Ã¯Ã®Ã«ÃÃ¨Ã²Ã¼ Ã§Ã Ã¤Ã ÃÃ¨Ã¥

Is this format OK to store in? If I want to use the text into another page (and select from mysql), do I have to store it in any encoding?

Russian Language (win-1251) At Export MySQL 4.1
I have a problem with mysql back-up of my site. At site is present the material in russian language (the coding WIN-1251). Presently, hosting company has done upgraid MySQL bases to version 4.1.

The Site works orderly, but when making back-up bases (Export), in the base are absent the symbols in russian language. At export of the base through PHPMYADMIN , the situation a bit better, some cyrilic symbols are seen, but not all. How it is correct to do the MySQL export to were seen cyrilic symbols?

Storing English/Japanese/Russian Characters
what is the best collation to be used for a field that will hold characters from various languages. It could be a set of characters from any of the following languages and different rows could hold different languages:

* English
* Japanese
* Russian
* Spanish
* Portugese
* German

Mysql Client Dont Write Russian Characters
I installed MySQL 5.0.24 and have so problem.I can't type russian characters in mysql client. Database has data in koi8 encoding (from dump, from php form...) and this data correctly shown.But when I switch encoding to russian in mysql client cursor stops moving independent from my keys pressing,when switch it return to English and typing continued.For example,I enter: select fld from tbl where fld="russ",if "russ" in koi8 I cann't type this characters.
It is possible type russian characters from OS command line: mysql -p -e "select fld from tbl where fld='russ'" dbname. In this case whole query text will be entered and correctly executed.
If anybody know how possibly decide this problem write me please.
My OS is ALTLINUX 3.0 : LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R
MySQL's variables:
| character_set_client | koi8r
| character_set_connection | koi8r
| character_set_database | koi8r
| character_set_filesystem | binary
| character_set_results | koi8r
| character_set_server | koi8r
| character_set_system | utf8
| character_sets_dir | /usr/local/mysql-standard-5.0.24-linux-i686/share/mysql/charsets/ |
| collation_connection | koi8r_general_ci
| collation_database | koi8r_general_ci
| collation_server | koi8r_general_ci

Install New Version Of Mysql With Old Version Running
I would like to install the new versin of mysql but currently i have mysql version 3.23 running...

I need to have 2 version of mysql running at the moment in win2000 for different app.

what is the steps for me to install the new version of mysql without causing error and able to run concurrently.

Rolling Back A DB From Version 5 To Version 4
I've got a local MySQL DB with my MediaWiki data that was created in version 5.0.17, but I recently discovered that my webhost is running version 4.0.27, and when I tried to import the database as-is, I received an error.

I'm looking for suggestions as to how I could roll my database back to the older version of MySQL, in case my webhost decides not to let me upgrade. I've considered using an intermediary, such as converting to MDB or CSV, but so far I haven't had much luck with finding a tool to do so without spending a pile o' cash.

Character Set '#33' Is Not A Compiled Character Set
i keep on gettin this error when i am trying to run a php program that accesses mysql.
Character set '#33' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the '/usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index' file

This program was set under a cron job and worked fine till this afternoon about 2:00pm but then went berserk with this error---

Set Character Set?
I am having problems with my character set - and as a result, certain characters get converted. I changed the column collation to "utf8_general_ci", but it didn't work.

When I use phpMyAdmin to edit the field, it updates properly, but when done from PHP it doesn't work (but if I echo the value right before insert, it shows up properly)

What do I need to do? I was told I need to change 'character_set_client', but I don't even know where/how to edit it.

4.1 - Character Set
I,ve upgraded MySQL from RPM-s to ver. 4.1.9 After that, all varchar fields hava a collation set to latin1_swedish_ci - that makes me impossible to do any changes with PhpMyAdmin, because I use polish language (iso-8859-2 or pl-utf-8)

Is there a possibility to change server settings, all databases and fields collation to latin2 without loose any data...

Env. seetings (showed by PhpMyAdmin):

Variables Session Global
character set client utf8 latin1
character set connection latin2 latin1
character set database latin1 latin1
character set results utf8 latin1
character set server latin1 latin1
character set system utf8 utf8
collation connection latin2_general_ci latin1_swedish_ci
collation database latin1_swedish_ci latin1_swedish_ci
collation server latin1_swedish_ci latin1_swedish_ci

Character Set
I am using phpmyadfmin 2.7.0-pl2 in combination with mysql 5.0.18 and I'm having trouble importing a file with this content:

REPLACE INTO `font` VALUES (401, 'AnamorphosÃ©e Normal Sample', 'anamorphosÃ©e_normal_sample', 'anamorphosÃ©e_normal_sample.zip', 'anamorphosÃ©e_normal_sample_mac.zip', 565);

I'm only having trouble when I import it using the import function, when I copy paste it into "SQL" it works.

The problem is that it doesn't recognize the special characters, the character set is set to utf8 in the import screen.

When I select "SQL" and can type my query in the browser I don't have to select a character set, and then it works.

If I import the file it show the contents of the file after execution like this:

REPLACE INTO `font`
VALUES ( 401, 'Anamorphosé¥ Normal Sample', 'anamorphosé¥Ÿnormal_sample ', 'anamorphosé¥Ÿnormal_sample.zip ', 'anamorphosé¥Ÿnormal_sample_mac.zip ', 565 ) ;

I have tried selecting other charsets, but they also don't work, I even tried not selecting one, but it seems that that is not allowed.

Character Set
I just installed MySQL 4.1.20 for the UTF-8 support it offers. I'm trying to set the charcter set & collation at the database level but can't get it to work.

It works by setting it at the server level (in my.cnf) but I want to set it at the database level because I'll be hosting the web app on a third-party web hosting server, where likely I won't have access to server level settings via my.cnf (is there a way around this?). Code:

Character Set
I had mysql server installed on 486 computer which ran as server. I made a very easy php forum using mysql database. As I am from Slovenia, we have some special characters - ÄÅ¡Å¾ - that were entered quite frequently in database.

It all worked well until I moved the server to a new, better, computer. Slovenian characters don't work now except if I enter them anew but even then mysql server converts them to some strange characters and then back to normal (when queried from database). What do I have to do so that mysql server would accept those characters like it did on my old computer?

Character Set
So I have I *.csv file where I extract a Country Name, for instance, "AlgÃ©rie", with php.
No problem with this. But then I save the country name in a variable $result that I use in a SqlQuery :

SELECT [...] [...] where Country = $result

And I have the following mysql error :

(NB - Im Using french language mysql)

<< Champ 'AlgÃƒÂ©rie' inconnu dans where clause >>

Could someone help me configure the right character set variables to solve the above problem.

Character
I changed my host and have problem with my site's special characters for my country...
my; MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8),

(I choose) MySQL connection collation : latin1_swedish_ci
and I uploaded my db. it says for collation : latin1_swedish_ci

Character Set
I used phpmyadmin to export a database into a file called file.sql, then from ssh I dropped the database, issued a 'create database dbname' command, then ran 'mysql dbname < file.sql'...

The problem is now there are a bunch of weird characters being generated.. like Â and â€ .

Character Set
I am having a character set problem and getting following error message:

=========================
mysql> alter table math_results_2006 character set euckr;
ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'character set euckr' at line 1
mysql> show character set;
ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'character set' at line 1
=========================

Character Set
Most of the tables that exist on my MySql server so far have the following:

Charset: latin1

Collation: latin1_swedish_ci

I would like to know whether it is a good idea for my tables to use these settings, and what the "standard" or most commonly used settings would be? Or what settings it is most sensible to be using.

Character Set
I'm using 4.1.3b with mysql-max. Currently I've developed an application which is using the db on 4.1.3 in latin1 character set. Am going to localize the application to japanese. Therefore hoping to use 'sjis' as the new character set. Need to know the process of tranforming my aleady existing database from latin1 to sjis step by step.

Version 3 And 4 On Same Box
I have a box that is currently using Version 3.23 of MySQL. I want to install a version 4 along with version 4. This will be running on a windows machine. Does anyone know if this is possible or will it cause problems for the already installed version 3?

Will any shared dlls be over written for example?

Version 5 To 4
We did some work on a mysql DB version 5. We now need to put it on the live server. However, the live server runs version 4.
IT does not want to put two versions on the server and will not upgrade to version 5. If I try to create a backup using compatability mode i get MySQL Error Nr.0
what is the best way for me to be able to get this database converted to a version 4 compatable instance.

Version Of PHP
suggest me that which latest versions are best and work properly with each other without having lots of problems.

Version
HOW TO FIND THE VERSION OF MYSQL IS BEING USED IN SYSTEM?
i AM USING "FEDORA CORE 3 " AS OS.

Version 5
I have a new application I'm working on and it would be *so* much simpler to have views available. Is anyone using 5.0 extensively and able to comment on its stability? I'd have to put some non-mission critical but still production databases into 5.0 and I don't want to have my data wandering away

Version
I tried to upgrad mysql v4.0 to v4.1 through cpanel/WHM and my user account cpanels are still showing the version as 4.0.25. How do I check which version is actually on there

Version 3.51. To 4
i just installed over the top, is this ok???? coz i have now 2 unistall options in windows install/unistall panel

Version
MySQL 4.0 or MySQL 4.1?
MySQL 4.1 supports subquery but it is still a beta version.

Version 5.0
I have MySQL version 5.0.17-nt installed in my localhost testing environment. I have run into a problem installing some software that uses MySQL. The software people have only tested their software with version 4.0.18 and nothing later.
Is it plausable that the software tested at version 4.0.18 has some incompatabilities with MySQL version 5.0.17?
If so, is there anything I can do (configuration, etc) with my version 5.0.17 server to smooth out these wrinkles?

Version 5.0
mysql version 4.1 has been in production status since october, 2004
if you're not on 4.1 yet, and you post a problem and wish to receive a solution involving sql, it is your responsibility to mention which version you're on
otherwise, you might get a solution using sql that works only in 4.1

Version 4
I have been trying to change the query below to work in version 4.0.x of MySQL (it works in version 5).

Code:

SELECT *
FROM Categories
WHERE Cat_ID NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT Join_Cat.Cat_ID
FROM Join_Cat WHERE Join_Cat.Comp_ID = 1)

(The above returns all 'Categories' a 'Company' is not in)

New Version
I was using a previous version of MySQL before.(4.0.21) Then I downloaded version 5.1.2. I use the Windows Version for Windows 2003 server with ASP codes. What I was basicly doing is using forms to enter new info to the database and editing them by form again. On the editing page I was bringing the current values to the forms by giving the default values of the fields ( ors.Fields("propname").value ) But with this last version I have problem. It brings only the first word of the record to the form field. I could not understand why.

Character ' Ã¨ ' In MySQL
I hope this question is relevant to the space. I'm designing a website which involves 'crème' as a product. All of the products are being stored in a MySQL db. I was wondering how to properly store this given that when it is retrieved, Firefox shows me a ? for the character 'è' and Safari does the same.

Select By First Character
I want creat a paging by first character of my field how can I select I rows that name of them start with for example "a";

like this names :

ab
ac
afbdfdgd
aarer
ab
aa

Character Encoding
I have a stock install of mysql 3.23 which (by default) is using the Latin1 character set.

I want to ensure that it will support accented characters like in french words and french names.

I think from reading the docs, that i need to use utf8 but i am not sure how to go about that, it looks like this wasnt added until mysql 4.

Is it as simple as defining it when you create the database with a sql command?

Character Set Not Working
I am using 5.0.24 max on my RedHat 8.0. Having problems inserting persian character set into my database. After searching around and doing what was recommended, I still got no where. I am using a firefox -> PHP -> mysql to enter and read data. Reading data from the command line results in garbage. Here is some useful info:

mysql> show create database mytest;
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Database | Create Database |
+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| mytest | CREATE DATABASE `mytest` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_persian_ci */ |

mysql> show create table binfo3;
| binfo3 | CREATE TABLE `binfo3` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`year` varchar(8) collate utf8_persian_ci default NULL,
`make` varchar(15) collate utf8_persian_ci default NULL,
`model` varchar(20) collate utf8_persian_ci default NULL,
`miles` int(11) default NULL,
`price` int(11) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=100009 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_persian_ci |

mysql> show variables like 'character_set%';
+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/local/mysql-max-5.0.24-linux-i686/share/mysql/charsets/ |

Here is how I connect the DB:
# cat opendb.php
<?php
// This is an example opendb.php
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass ) or die ('Error connecting to mysql');
mysql_select_db($dbname);
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET UTF8");
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=NULL");
?>

In my browser after entering the data I echo the data and it appears fine. I read it back from the DB and its garbage like:
ID:100008
Year:Û±&
Make:Ø¨Ù†&
Model:Û²Û²Û°
Kilometer:0
Price:0

The & is not suppose to be there. Only 1 char from Year is appearing and 2 chars from the Make appearing. But Model looks fine! Kilometer and price are not accepting any inputs!

Character Problem
i have a table named 'mesajlar'. when i enter some data into the table using with Query browser, it seems ok. But when i want to use this data in visual basic, i get an data have some characters in the data that i didn't enter. Note that i use turkish language, i use win 200 pro. the problem characters are turkish characters.

when i have entered data using by Vb (with code) and callback data it seems normal. But this time, in query browser, i see bad characters.

the query browser uses a different font ?? bu i configure it to work with turkish...

And i cant see my language charackters in mysql command line. the characters seems like a empty box or bad character like %?^+ v.s.

Strange Character ...
We were trying to save https://oururl in mysql database.
But got https: / /oururl

We don't know why "/" be changed to " /", any suggestion?

How To Know Type Of Character Set
Any idea how to know the character set of a specific table? My hosting use mysql 4.0.27 and I can't find any info relating to character set in phpmyadmin. I could convert character set by using "ALTER TABLE `phpbb_posts_text` CHARACTER SET utf8". But I want to make sure that table is being converted.

Character Set And Collation
I am new to MySQL and transferring a database from MSSQL 2000 to MySQL. When creating a view the character_set defaults to utf8. I want it to be latin1. If I specify latin1 for the field in the view it works ok. Like:

SELECT _latin1 'Client Accounts' AS AccountName

Is there a central place where I can change it permanently so I donâ€™t have to specify it in every view?

I have the following settings:

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'char%';
'character_set_client', 'utf8'
'character_set_connection', 'utf8'
'character_set_database', 'latin1'
'character_set_results', 'utf8'
'character_set_server', 'latin1'
'character_set_system', 'utf8'
'character_sets_dir', 'C:Program FilesMySQLMySQL Server 5.0sharecharsets'

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'coll%';
'collation_connection', 'utf8_general_ci'
'collation_database', 'latin1_swedish_ci'
'collation_server', 'latin1_swedish_ci'

I think I need to change 'character_set_connection' to 'latin1'. How do I do this please?

Character Encoding
I have to import a list of 8000+ postal codes into a MySQL DB, but in Germany the latin1 characters are not playing nice or the list, not sure anymore.

I wrote a PHP script to give me the ord of the characters so I can see if it is legal, and a Ã¼ comes out as char 252, this is right, but in my mysql shell it shows as a diamond questionmark, and a query to the value in a browser display the Ã¼ as a comma.. Weird thing is if I add a Ã¼ via my frontend, it display's correct in the browser, but the value for the fieled in the mysql client is then two question marks... I just can't figure this one out .. what must I do to get the import to work? Surely I can not manually enter all 8000+ place names ..

I am guessing that my DB is defaulting to latin1 chars, and that the list is not in Latin1, actually I think it is in this windows format, 8852-2 or something, but for the life of me I can not find something to convert this characters so they are in the latin1 format.

How To Set UTF8 Character Set
I am running 5.0.2-alpha-standard on my AiX sever and I want to start up the mysql instance with character sets UTF8 on Server, Db, Client & Conn
When I try to use --character-set-server=utf8 at startup I get a 'not found' error message. What do I need to achieve a UTF8 configuration please?

[4.0.20] Set Character Set / Bug In Replication?
I've got two Linux x86 servers: master and slave, both with MySQL 4.0.20
from the same package. On the master I do:

SET CHARACTER SET cp1250_latin2;
UPDATE `my_tab` SET `my_field`='my_cp1250_string';

and got this in both master's and slave's log.

On master the data is properly translated into latin2 and I get latin2
characters in my_field. On slave I don't, there are still cp1250 characters.

I think, although not 100% sure, thas this worked okey in 4.0.18.
Any ideas?

How To Change A Character
I have a table something like:

table orders
{
int id;
varchar name;
varchar total;
}

The total item has a text string containing an amount entry, like $10. It can also contain formating like <b>$10</b>. I want to change all occurences of $ to Â£ but can't see how to just change one character while leaving the rest alone. Would someone please explain how to do this?

Unicode Character Set
How can store korean characters into mine Mysql databse and retrieve it back, without any losse of characters.

I mean when i am storing an aricle in non European language, and later retrive it on my website, it shows very strage characters or somtime this ?????? ???? ????.

Replacing One Character
how can i replace one character in with another, in any row.. if it can be done even in any table:)

like you would do 'find and replace' in a very large text document (that is the way im doing it now... export whole base, delete it, replace characters in dreamweaver and import base back...)

i am doing this because of characters.. which are not part of US alphabet. i would NOT like to change encoding - it brings a lot of other problems with it..

Escape The '?' Character
a problem with mySQL :

INSERT INTO mytable(myfield1,myfield2) VALUES ('?abcdef','testing')

When I run the SQL query above using VB6 + ADO, what happens is I get an error saying that it was expecting a parameter.
I know that in mySQL you can do parameterized queries by using the '?' character in place of the value. However, in my example above, it is quite obvious that what I'm trying to insert is not a parameterized item, but a string called '?abcdef' ...

mySQL somehow seems to ignore this, and it still doesnt work even with the escape character in front of the '?' . However, if the '?' was anywhere else in the string (not the first character), then it works...

for example : this works ->
INSERT INTO mytable(myfield1,myfield2) VALUES ('abc?def','testing')

So is this a mySQL bug? or is there any way to properly escape the '?' character ?