MySQL and UTF-8

[howachen]

Hi,

I created a table using :

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CREATE TABLE test(
unicodeText VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL
)
CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

in php, when i need to query for the data, i need to set the character
set per each connection, i.e.

$DB->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

however, i expect this is a kind of overhead ? (a roundtrip delay per
connection)

how to perform this automatically?

I tried to set "default-character-set=utf8 " in my.ini but this didn't
help...

thanks.

[Jerry Stuckle]

ho******@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I created a table using :

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CREATE TABLE test(
unicodeText VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL
)
CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

in php, when i need to query for the data, i need to set the character
set per each connection, i.e.

$DB->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

however, i expect this is a kind of overhead ? (a roundtrip delay per
connection)

how to perform this automatically?

I tried to set "default-character-set=utf8 " in my.ini but this didn't
help...

thanks.

You could try a MySQL usenet group - like comp.databases.mysql.

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