Fetching UTF-8 text from MySQL in R returns “????”

Question

I\'m stuck trying to fetch UTF-8 text in a MySQL database from R. I\'m running R on OS X (tried both via the GUI and command line), where the default locale is en_US.UTF-8,

Answer 1

This worked for me. Here is a full example:

con = dbConnect(drv = MySQL(), user = user, password = password,
                dbname = dbname, host=host)

dbSendQuery(con, "SET NAMES utf8mb4;")
dbSendQuery(con, "SET CHARACTER SET utf8mb4;")
dbSendQuery(con, "SET character_set_connection=utf8mb4;")


dbGetQuery(con, "SELECT * FROM WHATEVER")