How to store Euro Symbol in mysql database?

Question

How to store symbol for Euro currency in MySQL Database ?

Answer 1

Create a column with a character set that supports the Euro character.

CREATE TABLE MyTable
(
    MyEuroColumn VARCHAR(5)
      CHARACTER SET utf8
      COLLATE utf8_general_ci 
);

If your editor doesn't support Unicde, you can insert it like;

select concat('Five ', _ucs2 0x20AC, ' please!')

You can also store the Euro symbol in other character sets:

UTF-8                  0xE282AC
UCS-16                 0x20AC
ISO-8859-15 (latin-9)  0xA4