> Only one: if you plan to use more, than one character set. Say, you > want store in one column text with greek, german, italian and chineese > characters ;-)
The same column should hold english and german text. Acording to your reply this seems fine since there are no special characters in english?!
Thanx, Merlin
Viacheslav Kaloshin wrote:
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:54:33 +0100, Merlin <news.groups@xxxxxx> wrote:
1 - use latest versions (4.1) of mysql and UTF-8 encoding.
I am using 4.0.18 and the data look korrekt when retriefed out of the database. I did not enable any kind of encodeing. Is there a downfall in how I am doing it, which I just now do not notice?
Only one: if you plan to use more, than one character set. Say, you want store in one column text with greek, german, italian and chineese characters ;-)
But if only one character set and no plans to extend - no problem to use "as is" without any reencoding
Regards,
Merlin
2(bad) - before storing encode all string to base64 or something like this :-)
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:29:20 +0100, Merlin <news.groups@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there,
I am wondering how to store special characters like the german ö for example into a mysql db. Should the characters somehow be transforemd into html entities like ö? What are the benefits if it works without them as well?
Thank you for any hint,
Merlin
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