Importing Unicode from MySQL

[Bob Sneidar]

Trevor, does sqlYoga do this automatically? Is there a down side to doing this by default?

Bob S


> On Jul 26, 2017, at 08:47 , Devin Asay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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"*