Detect encoding and make everything UTF-8

Question

I\'m reading out lots of texts from various RSS feeds and inserting them into my database.

Of course, there are several different character encodings used in the fee

Answer 1

After sorting out your php scripts, don't forget to tell mysql what charset you are passing and would like to recceive.

Example: set character set utf8

Passing utf8 data to a latin1 table in a latin1 I/O session gives those nasty birdfeets. I see this every other day in oscommerce shops. Back and fourth it might seem right. But phpmyadmin will show the truth. By telling mysql what charset you are passing it will handle the conversion of mysql data for you.

How to recover existing scrambled mysql data is another thread to discuss. :)