I\'m doing this directly in the mysql client. I want to do the following:
INSERT INTO MYTABLE VALUES(1,12,\'\\u5c40\\u5c42\');
So it would
What's the type of your table data? char or varchar? Your issue isn't quite clear, are you getting an error from that line? You might be experiencing: http://dev.hubspot.com/bid/7049/MySQL-and-Unicode-Three-Gotchas.
EDIT:
Quite a bit of information is within these three pages that should be able to help: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-unicode.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/string-syntax.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-literal.html
but I also saw this :
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 12, _ucs2'\x5C40\x5C42');
Using the mysql console, I can just paste your unicode characters into an insert command and mysql accepts it. Here's a little test I did using your data:
CREATE TABLE xx (col1 varchar(20));
insert into xx values ('局层');
select * from xx;
+---------+
| col1 |
+---------+
| 局层 |
+---------+
My db uses default encoding (latin1).
Have you tried just pasting them in? What error, if any, do you get?
It will depend on what you are programming with or if just dealing with the database directly. Are you just trying to do a straight insert from querybrowser or some other tool or are you doing this via a web app. IF the second, what language is the webapp using. If it is a .net app you can try setting the character set in the connection string i.e. charset=utf8
If you are doing something with php then take a look at this link http://randomchaos.com/documents/?source=php_and_unicode
You could also go and set the default character set on the database to UTF-8. Not sure how this will impact the current data so be sure to backup everything before making changes to the database.