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[nycphp-talk] MySQL 4 vs. 5 and character encoding (?)

Daniel Convissor danielc at analysisandsolutions.com
Fri May 12 08:52:59 EDT 2006


Dude:

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:51:42PM -0400, Rahmin Pavlovic wrote:
> 
> So -- just so I get this straight -- say I ALTER TABLE to set the default
> character set to be UTF-8, then insert a brand new record filled with
> high-bit chars, it will still not be able to read certain characters and
> introduce '?' and whatnot in their stead?

No.  OLD DATA will not magically fixed, which is what you were talking 
about when you started this thread.  NEW DATA will be fine.

--Dan

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