MYSQL :: Arabic Character Encoding Problem (shows Just ????????)

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 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.

Character Encoding
"PHP" and "MySQL Command Center" recognize correct greek letters from
MySQL tables.

But "MySQL Query Browser" and "MySQL Administrator" does not recognize
anything greek correct.

Character Encoding
I have noticed that (in windows) when i switch to different input language and insert into MySql table via php using form in a browser, characters, when viewed with mysql command line are displayed differently and there is actulaly more characters than i typed. When i directly insert into MySql table via command line, switching language when I am to type the value to be inserted, everything is displayed in mySql command line after selecting rows. But when i show in browser though, values entered in Command Line are not displayed right.

Character Encoding
I have a website that is used by people from pretty much everywhere in the world, without too many difficulties, but the main issue seems to be altin american countries and their "special" characters such as c with a cedilla or accented letters.
The problem is that I am running mysql 3.23.56 and my pages are set to encode in UTF-8 (and I can't find any docs of the encoding of mysql 3.23.56), and when people in Uruguay or Venezuala add a something to the DB with a cedilla or an accent, it shows up fine for us to view, but when attempting to take the data out of the DB, and then resubmitting it with minor modifications, it causes major malfunctions.

Character Encoding Connector/J
I have 2 servers....

the first is an NT server running MySQL 3.x with connector/j. This server works fine and all "international" characters are showing up correctly.

The 2nd server is a linux server running mySQL max 4.x and all "international" characters are showing up as question marks, etc. I tried setting the URL in the jdbc connection string to useUnicode=true and set the default character set to utf8 but this didn't fix the problem. Any suggestions?

Character Encoding Problem
the first is an NT server running MySQL 3.x with connector/j. This server
works fine and all "international" characters are showing up correctly.

The 2nd server is a linux server running mySQL max 4.x and all
"international" characters are showing up as question marks, etc. I tried
setting the URL in the jdbc connection string to useUnicode=true and set the
default character set to utf8 but this didn't fix the problem.

French Character Encoding
hey there i changed all my charset to utf-8 on every page but the
à will not show they show as ?
do i have to set something in my query?

MySQL Character Encoding
I'm inserting french characters: Référence
And when I read them they come out as:URL
I've tried everything and not sure what's going on. I tried changing the encoding of the mysql tables and columns.. etc.
When I use MYSQL query browser it shows fine and it works fine on my local machine..?
I'm on the CF hosting shared platform if that makes anything diff.

http://www.crystaltech.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13276

MyISAM Storage And Character Encoding
I'm looking for documentation on how mysql receives, stores and returns text data. I think mysql stores all text datatypes the same way regardless of source text encoding but I could be wrong.

For instance, if I send mysql utf-8 data from a web form, how does mysql myisam store the data? Does it store it literally as 1-4 bytes in utf-8 or if I send it iso-8859-1 encoded text does it store it as latin-1 single-byte data?

Then, when I query the data over a remote connection, how does mysql know to send it using the character_set_results encoding (e.g. iso-8859-1)? I can see that changing the results encoding will change the data received.

For example a left-double-quote stored in the database when queried using character_set_results = utf8, the data comes as 3 bytes. But if I change the character_set_results = latin1 then the data comes as 1 byte.

This is all correct as far as I can tell. I just want to make sure that if I set an HTML form tag with accept-charset='iso-8859-1' the data can later be retrieved as utf-8 if I want and the correct number of bytes are sent back from mysql.

Character Encoding Problem/Connector/J
I have 2 servers....

the first is an NT server running MySQL 3.x with connector/j. This server
works fine and all "international" characters are showing up correctly.

The 2nd server is a linux server running mySQL max 4.x and all
"international" characters are showing up as question marks, etc. I tried
setting the URL in the jdbc connection string to useUnicode=true and set the
default character set to utf8 but this didn't fix the problem.

Scandinavian Character Encoding Problem
I am working with PHP/MySQL and am having a problem with scandinavian characters; if anyone has any suggestions that would be great.

I have been provided with a source data set containing scandinavian metadata. As part of the process I am working on I am also scraping metadata from referenced files and inserting them into another table,leaving me with two separate tables from which I will collate data.

The problem arises when I attempt to create XML documents representing the sum total of the metadata for a particular record.The data which I have scraped from files is extracted, escaped and written to file perfectly,even though viewing the data through a terminal shows spaces where scandinavian characters should be.Meanwhile, the source data, which looks correct through the terminal is causing problems.I have so far managed to determine that the characters (Ã…Ã˜Ã†Ã¥Ã¸Ã¦ for the most part) are being interpreted as Ãƒ followed by some other special character by PHP.I am trying to pin down where this misinterpretation is happening, and have narrowed the problem to either the database or the mysql_x functions in PHP.

The database is using latin1 as its charset, so this ought to be fine.PHP tells me that the encoding of the strings I am passing it are variously SJIS, ASCII and UTF-8, although trying to covert between these formats has so far been unsuccessful.

Am I missing something obvious? Character encoding is not my fortÃ© ;)

Arabic From MySQL
I have Arabic text stored in my DB with collation utf8_unicode_ci.
With a SELECT statement and with php I want this text to display in my browser. So far I get ???? questionmarks and the text is not displayed correctly.

The select statement is pretty far straightforward

[pseudo]
SELECT content_arabic from Content //missing utf8 here I think

In the header of HTML I use: content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"

Mysql And Arabic
How can mysql display Arabic well. Right now it is displaying them as ??????? . I'm using mambo and everyting is working fine on the local server but when online all i see is question marks .

here is the server info

Server version: 4.1.21-standard
Protocol version: 10
Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
User: islamic@localhost
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

the local server of the mysql is MySQL 4.0.24-nt .

Arabic Dictionary
I do not know if I am right here.. I need an english<->arabic dictionary database/Table to integrate into my web site.. Does anybody have an Idea?

PHP, MySQL And Arabic Support
I wonder if you could help me with this problem.

I want to store and search Arabic text in MySQL database. I am running MySQL 4.1. and the collation is set to "cp1256_general_ci" for database, tabel and column.

Now, in PhpMyAdmin, if I run the following sql, it works:

PHP MySQL And Arabic Support
I want to store and search Arabic text in MySQL database. I am running MySQL 4.1. and the collation is set to "cp1256_general_ci" for database, tabel and column. Now, in PhpMyAdmin, if I run the following sql, it works:

SELECT * FROM Arabic where t1='????'

However, I am also running this SQL in a PHP file, like:

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());  }

mysql_select_db("ArabicTest", $con);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Arabic where t1='????'") or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  echo $row['t1'];
  echo "<br />";
  echo $row['t2'];
  echo "<br />";
  } ?>

However, when I try to run the above sql from a php file, I get the following error:

Illegal mix of collations (cp1256_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (latin1_swedish_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' How can I solve this problem.

MySQL Handle Arabic
I am trying to load Arabic characters into a MySQL table, and it doesn't appear to be working. The database is in XML format. When I look at the file using an XML viewer, the Arabic characters are there. I then use Navicat to import the XML file into MySQL. When I look at the file with MySQL query browser, there are question marks where the arabic chars should be. If I export the MySQL table to Excel (which I know can display Arabic chars) ther are still just question marks, so somehow I am losing the chars in the conversion.

7e2 Shows Up As 7.00E+02
I have value that I'm adding to a table via an insert statement. The value is "7e2", but for some reason is being converted to scientific notation on the insert "7.00E+02". I have quotes around the field as well. If you look at the insert statement below, it's "question" field. Anyone know of a way to force it to be a string?

$sql = "INSERT INTO ICI_ANSWERS (session_id, scale_id, question, answer, date_stamp) VALUES ('" . $piece . $data[0] . "', " . $data[1] . ", '" . $data[2] . "', '" . $data[3] . "', '" . $data[4] . "')";

English And Arabic Text Support?
How can I make a MySQL table accept both English and Arabic text?

So far, I only know how to create a normal MySQL table with the following query:

CREATE TABLE `items` (
`id` INT(7) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
`title` VARCHAR( 30 ) NOT NULL ,
`description` TEXT NOT NULL ,
`updated` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL
);

What needs to be added to that to make it accept both English and Arabic inputs (for both title and description cols)?

Storing And Displaying Arabic Words
I have a problem and it is making MYSQL accepting Arabic words and displays them as Arabic words.I can store Arabic words but on retrieving them from MYSQL they become xxxx,
see the insert statement and the select statement below.
Can you help?
I have windows xp and easyphp 1.8

Opened_tables Always Shows Zero
When I log into any of our db servers, go into mysql on the command line, and do a 'show status', the value of Opened_tables is always showing 0.

However, when I log into mysql via the MySQL Administrator and look under Health-->Status Variables it shows a value.

Any idea why it's always showing zero when I do it from within mysql on the command line? It's happening on multiple servers.

MySQL Only Shows Homepage
I have a problem concerning MySQL and Apache. I host a Fedora server with Apache, MySQL and PHP installed. A customer has a webpage that uses MySQL but for some reason I can't get any other pages than the homepage up when I click on other links, I just come back to the homepage. The URL displays the other link but it still stays the same. Code:

'datetime' Shows Only '0000-00-00 00:00:00'
I currently have a form set up on a site to send data entered into a database.
Now, the form submits correctly, the data is stored in the database correctly,
but the 'datetime' shows up as '0000-00-00 00:00:00' in each record.

I set the datetime variable to 'not null' and when I update the table, it sets the
default value to '0000-00-00 00:00:00'. Am I forgetting to set something or
where and how does the form get that date and time info?

Querying Only Shows 3 Columns
I have a mysql database set up with 20 columns but when querying the database only get 3 columns listed. The code i am using is as follows.
// connect to server, database, table.
include ("db_connect.inc");
SQL-query:
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM `signups` ORDER BY `title` ASC LIMIT 0, 30';

Is there a problem with my coding or the database itself? and what are the fixes for this problem?

How To View Arabic Data In MySQL Query Browser
I am making a website on linux and i am using a program called rekall to view the database and also the table was created using this program.

most of the data in the database are in Arabic and rekall views the data in an acceptable manner with some errors and without any configuration

but when I tried MySQL Query Browser on windows and several other programs including navicat, toad, heidiSQL all the arabic data was not viewable except the data in blobs which can be exported to extenal files

The website encoding is [ar-eg] and [utf-8]
I want to view the arabic data stored in the table using a windows program
and if the program is fast and simple it would be much better as I am not the one who is going to use it

Error Shows The E-mail @ Sign..?
I am gettin an error msg when trying to enter my newsletter registration details to the database.

function process_nl($id) {
$name=$_POST['txtname'];
$email=$_POST['txtemail'];
$SQL = "INSERT INTO nletter (name, email) VALUES ($name, $email)";
if(mysql_query($SQL,$id)) {
return true;
exit;
}
else
return false;
}

error:
You have an error in your SQL syntax near '@yahoo.com)' at line 1

Phpmyadmin Shows ???? Of Korean Data
My machine is windows xp sp2 with Apache HTTPD 2.2.0, MySQL 5.0.18, PHP 4.4.1 pl1 phpMyAdmin 2.7.0-pl1.

And the settings of apm is;

1) httpd.conf
DefaultLanguage ko

2) php.ini
default_mimetype = "text/html"
;default_charset = "iso-8859-1"
;default_charset ="utf-8"
;efault_charset = "euc-kr"

3) my.inf
[mysqld]
character-set-server = utf8
collation-server = utf8_general_ci

On my test site, I can see right Korean data.
But on phpmyadmin I can see only ???? for Korean data.

Musql Dump Shows Error
I am trying to backing up a databse .

I open the command promt form start > run;
i wrote the command "mysqldump --opt kimberly > backup.sql"
kimberly = database name;

the error comes out :

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: NO) when trying to connect

Query Log Shows 12+ Attempts To Connect Every Minute
I have mysql-4.0.20a-nt running on windows 2000. I had trouble connecting from a different computer in my home network so I set the following in my.ini:

set-variable=log=mysql.log

At startup I get the mysql.log file in the data directory. Upon inspection it shows a lot of connect commands, at least 12 every minute, with some 10 seconds in between, they come in pairs, first as ODBC@localhost with no password, and second as user@localhost with a password set. Access seems to be denied every time. Here's a snippet from the file:

MySql, Version: 4.0.20a-nt-log, started with:
TCP Port: 3306, Named Pipe: MySQL
Time Id Command Argument
050320 20:38:08 1 Connect Access denied for user: 'user@localhost' (Using password: YES) ....

Date Field In Database Shows 0000-00-00 00:00:00
i have the following in my list of variables (partial list):

$id = $_POST['id'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$date = date("D, d M yyyy, h:ia T");

and my connection includes:
$sqlquery = "INSERT INTO $table VALUES('$id','$name','$date')";

all other values are posting except the date.

in the mysql database, the date field is set up as follows:

Field Type Null Default
date timestamp Yes CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

my objective is simply to add a date field with the current date and time. i want mysql to insert the date for me in the format resulting in this type of output:

Fri, 19 Aug 2005, 10:23am CST. i just wasn't sure whether i was supposed to
include the date variable or not.

MYSQL Date Entry Shows 0000-00-00
i want the user to type in the date. Everything works fine and the form submits. When i open the database and query the results, the date field shows only 0000-00-00. It doesn't show the date entered (ex 05/23/07). What am i doing wrong?

I'm thinking it has to do something with converting the string to a date? If so, how do i do that in PHP.

Command SHOW SLAVE STATUS G, Shows That SLAVE_IO_RUNNING
I am trying to set up a master/slave replication.. I followed the instructions in the mysql manual.. I am using mysql 4.0.12 installed in windows xp... I have found out that the replication is not working ...

when i make the command SHOW SLAVE STATUS G, it shows that SLAVE_IO_RUNNING : No.
How can I make this run? What could have I done wrong?

Mysqld Shows High Cpu Usage Over Extended Time, Restart = Normal
Occasionally in checking one of the servers, I noticed that mysql shows 85% + of
cpu usage essentially leaving the server at 0% idle. After monitoring it for a
few hours, the status did not change. After a stop and start of mysql, things
progessed normally. Checking back a few days later I noticed it was once again
sitting up there at 95% (or thereabouts) and doing nothing of value from what i
could tell.

Have restarted MySQL during peak usage times for that server and its database,
and it has showed normal loads and CPU usage (approx 20% CPU with .1 to .3
load). Is there a known issue (running on FreeBSD 4.8, MySQL 3.23.55 MyISAM)?
Is there something I should check when next I notice the high CPU usage?

Encoding - Utf-8
I created tables without assigning any charset neither collation. I inserted data through perl to this table. Data was encoded in utf-8 and in this format i select it and show on the web.
But i've ended tests and i must move whole database on another server with mysql version 4.0
How should i dump data ? gry online

Encoding
in my country are used some non standard characters, how can i set the database to a different encoding?

mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'", $link_identifier);

this does not work, encoding stays latin1

Encoding Hex
i've been encountering a problem since 2 days while encoding a string in hex value

like :
SELECT '<?php phpinfo(); ?>' INTO DUMPFILE '/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/info.php'
this work pretty fine (under root privileges) .

now if i want to encode <?php phpinfo(); ?>
it will be : (0x3C3F70687020706870696E666F28293B203F3E)

so if we try this :
SELECT (0x3C3F70687020706870696E666F28293B203F3E) INTO DUMPFILE '/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/info.php'

it works fine .
now MY problem is when i try to encode the last string '/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/info.php'
so if we encode it : /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/info.php
--> (0x2F7573722F6C6F63616C2F617061636865322F6874646F63732F696E666F2E706870)

then the final query will be :
SELECT (0x3C3F70687020706870696E666F28293B203F3E) INTO DUMPFILE (0x2F7573722F6C6F63616C2F617061636865322F6874646F63732F696E666F2E706870);

and we get ...
#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(0x2F7573722F6C6F63616C2F617061636865322F6874646F63732F696E666F2E706870)' at line 1 .

Encoding W/ DB Migration
I'm trying to move a database from one server to another, but I'm getting characters such as unlauts turned into question marks on the target database. Running status on both databases shows the encoding to be different:

Source:
Server characterset:    latin1
Db     characterset:    latin1
Client characterset:    binary
Conn.  characterset:    binary

Destination:
Server characterset:    latin1
Db     characterset:    utf8
Client characterset:    latin1
Conn.  characterset:    latin1

When I perform a mysqldump, the non-standard characters get converted funny:

Source DB entry:
Weg des GlÃ¼cks

Dump file entry:
Weg des GlÃƒÂ¼cks

Destination DB entry:
Weg des Gl?cks

So it looks like the mysqldump is going wrong?

Does anyone know how to fix this? I admit to not knowing anything about character encoding! C:DOS:>
C:DOS:>RUN
RUN DOS RUN!!

Client Encoding ?
Can someone explain "client encoding" What is it and what should I set it to? I assume "Character set" is the same??

I'm using a database manager that asks me to set the client encoding. the default is latin 1

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---

MySQL, PhpMyAdmin And The UTF-8 Encoding
I currently making a form and it's all going well and stuff. But when I input chinese information into the form, and save it to the database, it displays as gibberish in the phpmyadmin table viewer.

How can I fix this problem?

Connecting With UnicodeBig Encoding.
In my Java program, when I attempt to set the characterEncoding property to "UnicodeBig" and then getConnection. I get an SQLException.

java.sql.SQLException: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Ã¾Ã¿' at line 1

The only time I get this is when I use UnicodeBig(table field data is encoded as UCS2) as the characterEncoding. Using UTF-8 doesn't cause this.

Encoding Passwords In MySQL
I am developing a database application in which I store usernames and
passwords. Naturally I want to store the passwords in an encrypted form.
However, just like you see in many web applications, I want to be able
to email the users password back to them should they forget their old
password.

I looked at how to store the password data in MySQL and they recommend
using MD5 or SHA. Both of these appear to be one way encryption
routines. IOW once I encrypt and store the users password there is no
way to unencrypt it.

How can I store passwords in my SQL database such that I can convert
them back to plain text when the user requests them?

Encoding MySQL Database
I would like to know if there is a way to encode a mysql db like zend encoding a php script?

Unicode Encoding Script
I have been in trouble since last few days. I have developing an web application which interacts MySQL from a jsp page. My mySQL table contains a column to store bengali word.

I can enter bengali word manually using bengali keyboard. And I can also retrieve bengali word in my jsp page and display it properly. But when I try to insert bengali word from my jsp page using ...executeUpdate("insert....."), it shows some characters like ???(+ some random character). My table supports UTF-8 also.

Convert Database Encoding
I need to convert all data from MySQL database from Windows-1250 (Central European) to UTF-8 Unicode. The database originaly worked with site wich has windows-1250 encoding on pages, but now its working with unicode pages on new site. Characters are not displayed correctly on new site. How can I possible convert this ? Database is MySQLversion 3.23.52..