[ic] UTF-8 in MySQL

[Stefan Hornburg]

Elver Loho wrote:
> On 3/7/06, Stefan Hornburg <racke at linuxia.de> wrote:
> 
>>Elver Loho wrote:
>>
>>>Hiya!
>>>
>>>We have a problem here implementing i18n support for our webshop. That
>>>is, right now, things 'work' in that we have a MySQL database with all
>>>our products in it, including some product names in Russian.
>>>(Cyrillic, UTF-8 fields.)
>>>
>>>However, on the MySQL side, those database fields are currently set as 'latin1'.
>>
>>I recommend to store UTF-8 as UTF-8 and go from there. Interchange might cause
>>trouble them, but we can fix that side. And IMHO it is most important that your
>>data base is clean.
> 
> 
> Um, dude. That's the problem right now with our new table. We're
> storing UTF-8 text as UTF-8 in the database. Interchange doesn't issue
> 'set names utf8' or 'set character set utf8' in order to read those
> fields. How can we tell it to?

Hm, I assumed that MySQL returns UTF-8 automatically in your case.
Which software versions do you use (MySQL, Perl, DBI, DBD::mysql) ?

Bye	
	Racke