Comments on: Configuring MySQL to use UTF-8 http://cameronyule.com/2008/07/configuring-mysql-to-use-utf-8 Glasgow based new media developer Cameron Yule. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:07:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Cameron http://cameronyule.com/2008/07/configuring-mysql-to-use-utf-8#comment-196 Cameron Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:55:47 +0000 http://cameronyule.com/?p=56#comment-196 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; <pre lang="bash"> mysql> show variables like 'init%'; +---------------+----------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +---------------+----------------+ | init_connect | SET NAMES utf8 | | init_file | | | init_slave | | +---------------+----------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) </pre> 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 http://cameronyule.com/2008/07/configuring-mysql-to-use-utf-8#comment-194 Enrico Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:07:02 +0000 http://cameronyule.com/?p=56#comment-194 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: <pre lang="bash"> 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) </pre> <pre lang="bash"> 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) </pre> 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 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

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