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I have a large CSV file that I am going to load it into a MySQL table. However, these data are encoded into utf-8 format, because they include some non-english characters. I have already set the character set of the corresponding column in the table to utf-8. But when I load my file. the non-english characters turn into weird characters(when I do a select on my table rows). Do I need to encode my data before I load the into the table? if yes how Can I do this. I am using Python to load the data and using LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE command. thanks as said in http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en

I have php document signup.php which save the content from form (in form.php document) to MySQL base. The problem arises when I want to reformat the input content. I want do decode UTF-8 charachters like à->a. $first_name=$_POST['first_name']; $last_name=$_POST['last_name']; $course=$_POST['course']; $chain="prêt-à-porter"; $pattern = array("'é'", "'è'", "'ë'", "'ê'", "'É'", "'È'", "'Ë'", "'Ê'", "'á'", "'à'", "'ä'", "'â'", "'å'", "'Á'", "'À'", "'Ä'", "'Â'", "'Å'", "'ó'", "'ò'", "'ö'", "'ô'", "'Ó'", "'Ò'", "'Ö'", "'Ô'", "'í'", "'ì'", "'ï'", "'î'", "'Í'", "'Ì'", "'Ï'", "'Î'", "'ú'", "'ù'", "'ü'"

I'm currently having a bit of problem with decrypting a message encrypted by php mcrypt. The php code is as following: <?php //$iv_size = mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC); $iv = "45287112549354892144548565456541"; $key = "anjueolkdiwpoida"; $text = "This is my encrypted message"; $crypttext = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $key, $text, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv); $crypttext = urlencode($crypttext); $crypttext64=base64_encode($crypttext); print($crypttext64) . "\n<br/>"; ?> The the encrypted message is then sent to a ASP.NET platform (C#). However, I'm having problem