Comments on: Configuring MySQL to use UTF-8

By: Loki Clock

Loki Clock — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:33:30 +0000

I managed to wrestle MySQL into Unicode submission using this advice in conjunction with my.cnf specifications mentioned in Getting out of MySQL Character Set Hell. I FEEL LIKE AN EXPERT. Much love to you, Yule, for showing me how to be sufficiently pedantic.

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:59:02 +0000

nvm, I figured something out. It only showed that output when logged into mysql as root. If logged in as user it shows correctly :)

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:39:05 +0000

Hi Cameron,

I got the same issue as Enrico. here my outputs:

Do you have any suggestions?

Regards,
Stan

By: masha

masha — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:59:43 +0000

i did all but when i run my site on localhost, it says connection failed. Please tell me what to do for this.
thanks

By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:35:01 +0000

Bear in mind that connecting are root will bypass the init-connect config setting. Just one of the many reasons why it’s better to set up secondary users on the server, even if it’s just a local development box.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:55:47 +0000

Hi Enrico, it looks as if the line:

init-connect=’SET NAMES utf8′

is not being executed – is this definitely in your my.cnf?

From the MySQL command prompt, try this to check it’s working;

mysql> show variables like 'init%';
+---------------+----------------+
| Variable_name | Value          |
+---------------+----------------+
| init_connect  | SET NAMES utf8 | 
| init_file     |                | 
| init_slave    |                | 
+---------------+----------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

By: Enrico

Enrico — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:07:02 +0000

Hi,
thanks for sharing this meaningful example of how to manage databases and charsets.
I tried what you say here, and I got this strange “limbo” solution:

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'collation%';
+----------------------+-------------------+
| Variable_name        | Value             |
+----------------------+-------------------+
| collation_connection | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_database   | utf8_general_ci   |
| collation_server     | utf8_general_ci   |
+----------------------+-------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                      |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client     | latin1                     |
| character_set_connection | latin1                     |
| character_set_database   | utf8                       |
| character_set_filesystem | binary                     |
| character_set_results    | latin1                     |
| character_set_server     | utf8                       |
| character_set_system     | utf8                       |
| character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Oh, and
Your MySQL connection id is 6836 to server version: 5.0.27
just to take into account different versions of mysql.

Now what can you think should I do?

Bye,
Enrico