Re: Question about encoding

On mån, 2009-08-24 at 18:42 +0200, Denis BUCHER wrote:
> Question 1 :
> Is it the expected behavior ? These characters have a SQL_ASCII
> equivalent because I already have them stored in another table of the
> same database

SQL_ASCII is not the same as ASCII.  SQL_ASCII means, take the bytes as
they come.  So a 40-character UTF-8 string might indeed be longer than
40 bytes, which is what SQL_ASCII will look at.

The best bet is to avoid SQL_ASCII altogether.  It's pretty bogus and
inconsistent.

> Question 2 :
> If yes, then I suppose I should have the database as LATIN1 or UTF8.
> Can I change/convert the encoding of the database ? Or at least of the
> schema (which would be even better)

Dump, recreate database with right encoding, restore.