Detecting utf8 broken characters in MySQL

Question

I\'ve got a database with a bunch of broken utf8 characters scattered across several tables. The list of characters isn\'t very extensive AFAIK (áéíúóÁÉÍÓÚÑñ)

Fixing

Answer 1

this also solved my problem on some italian chars

UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'á','á');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'ä','ä');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'é','é');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'í©','é');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'ó','ó');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'íº','ú');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'ú','ú');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'ñ','ñ');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'í‘','Ñ');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'Ã','í');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'–','–');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name`,'’','\'');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name`,'…','...');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name`,'–','-');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name`,'“','"');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name`,'â€','"');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name`,'‘','\'');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name`,'•','-');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name`,'‡','c');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'Â','');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'í ','à');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'í¨','è');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'íˆ','È');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'€','€');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'eÌ€','è');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'í²','ò');
UPDATE `table_name` SET `column_name` = REPLACE(`column_name` ,'í¹','ù');