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[Rahmin Pavlovic]

On 5/12/06 8:52 AM, "Daniel Convissor" <danielc at analysisandsolutions.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> 

That's just the thing:  new data gets mangled in the exact same way, which
is why I thought it wasn't a charset-collation issue.