Convert data from latin1_swedish to utf-8

问题

I need to convert data from old database to new one. Old database was in latin1_swedish_ci collation and have content in cyrilic language like this

<p>ÐрхиепиÑкоп охридÑки и ми...

This content with utf-8 enconding on page looks like this

<p>Архиепископ охридски и митрополит скопски ...

Which is fine. Now I need to convert all of this data into native UTF-8 content. No expirience with these, any sugg. Thanks

回答1:

You can try this

ALTER TABLE <tablename> CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci

And note that , this will affect existing column collations also. If you want to change default collasion to utf8 , must change database collation. After that all new table will be utf8

回答2:

From the manual,

ALTER TABLE t MODIFY col1 CHAR(50) CHARACTER SET utf8;

However, if you have characters that cannot be converted then you will lose that data. First make a backup and try it there.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10108550/convert-data-from-latin1-swedish-to-utf-8