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Feb 12, 2022 at 19:34 history edited Dharman CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 9, 2020 at 8:12 history edited Nick CC BY-SA 4.0
Typo
May 27, 2020 at 10:13 history edited Martin Taleski CC BY-SA 4.0
fixing mistake
Jan 26, 2019 at 15:30 history edited Martin Taleski CC BY-SA 4.0
expanding answer to cover a wide range of charset problems
Jan 26, 2019 at 15:21 history edited Martin Taleski CC BY-SA 4.0
expanding answer to cover a wide range of charset problems
Dec 24, 2018 at 8:44 history edited Martin Taleski CC BY-SA 4.0
adding a section about utf8mb4 as per comments
Dec 24, 2018 at 6:50 comment added Chindraba @reallynice The distinction is a fine one, and valid. If the full 4-byte implementation is needed then the utf8mb4 can be used on the command line; mysql --default-character-set=utf8mb4
Jun 20, 2017 at 20:43 comment added Martin Taleski well it forces them to be utf8, whatever utf8 means in mysql. I have changed it to lowercase so there is no confusion.
Jun 20, 2017 at 20:42 history edited Martin Taleski CC BY-SA 3.0
deleted 1 character in body
Jun 20, 2017 at 8:35 comment added reallynice I'm not sure that the statement "This [--default-character-set=utf8] forces the character_set_client, character_set_connection and character_set_results variables to be UTF8. " is right, because mysql has also got the utf8mb4 charset, which is their true implementation of UTF8. mysql's utf8 uses only 3 bytes, leaving out a range of characters of the UTF8 table
Sep 9, 2014 at 21:16 history edited Martin Taleski CC BY-SA 3.0
adding more info in the answer, and explanation hot to set it as default
Jul 2, 2014 at 14:24 history edited Martin Taleski CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 23, 2011 at 12:34 comment added spier This did help indeed. So starting mysql command line like this does the trick mysql --default-character-set=utf8
Jul 23, 2011 at 12:33 vote accept spier
Jul 22, 2011 at 9:42 history answered Martin Taleski CC BY-SA 3.0