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How do I find an invalid utf8 character “somewhere” in my MySQL/trac database

I have an installation of trac, which uses MySQL. It has been upgraded so many times, moved servers etc. and chances are that the MySQL character sets were not always set correctly or consistently ...
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Tell MySQL to start using utf-8 encoding without `convert to`ing it

In a fairly unique situation, my team has ended up with UTF-8 bytes in a database that thinks the data is encoded as latin1. At least, I'm 85% certain that this is the situation at hand. For ...
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Why default character_set_server is latin1?

I am using MySQL 5.5 and when I show variables about charset, I have +--------------------------+----------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | ...
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Solutions to 4-byte utf-8 characters in mysql 5.1

I'm running into a problem that seems to be an issue w/ mysql 5.1s limitations on UTF8 characters. From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-unicode-utf8.html Currently, MySQL support for ...