Importing Unicode from MySQL

[Devin Asay]

Andy,

Thanks for that tip. It’s one I never have heard about. I’ll try this next time I need to read UTF8 from my db.

Devin


On Jul 26, 2017, at 1:03 AM, AndyP via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:

I had the same problems a while ago, but got it sorted with the following.

*Before* you do any interactions with the db, add this line.

*revExecuteSQL MyConnectionID, "SET NAMES 'utf8'"*

"SET NAMES 'utf8'" is needed whenever you want to send/retrieve data
to/from the server having characters that cannot be represented in pure
ASCII, like 'ñ' or 'ö'.

Then retrieve the data

*put textDecode("SELECT * FROM MyTable","UTF-8")  into fld "MyField"*








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