> I looked at http://developer.loftdigital.com/blog/php-utf-8-cheatsheet > which suggests this: > ALTER DATABASE db_name > CHARACTER SET utf8 > DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 > COLLATE utf8_general_ci > DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci > ; > > ALTER TABLE tbl_name > DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 > COLLATE utf8_general_ci > ; > > or I could do it with phpMyAdmin, right? > > and the only difficulties would appear to be fixing any accent stuff > (don't know yet just what) and that would only be time consuming. > > I guess I'm just looking for reassurance that I don't muck up anything > and then have to do tortured acrobatics to redress things again. :-) > > Changing to UTF8 is time consuming but if programming can be used it would ease the effort. I have seen a WP plugin for that as well. And in phpmyAdmin you'll have to set the collation for all fields and tables one by one. :) Regards Lenin www.twitter.com/nine_L
