03 Mar

MySQL Character encoding - part 2

In MySQL Character encoding - part 1 we stated that the myriad of ways in which character encoding can be controlled can lead to many situations where your data may not be available as expected.

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12 Feb

MySQL Character encoding - part 1

Breaking and unbreaking your data Recently at FOSDEM, Maciej presented "Breaking and unbreaking your data", a presentation about the potential problems you can incur regarding character encoding whilst working with MySQL. In short, there are a myriad of places where character encoding can be controlled, which gives ample opportunity for the system to break and for text to become unrecoverable.

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