Questions tagged [character-set]
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How to bulk convert ISO8859 text in Text columns to UTF8 in nvarchar(max) columns?
I've been struggling for days with a problem on a MS SQL database. Here is the situation: I have an old Open Source PHP application (Limesurvey version 1.92) running on a Windows 2008R2 server, with ...
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Is there a MySQL character set and encoding that will allow for both emojis and accents?
I've got a database of terms that get added to by one group of users, and queried against by another.
I was running into problems when people would query for an emoji in the database and my React app ...
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Which characters are considered “word” characters
Fulltext searchin with InnoDB in MySQL only includes certain characters referred to in the docs as "word characters" and mentioned here:
For the built-in full-text parser, you can change the set of ...
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Character set 'utf8mb4' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the '/usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index.xml' file
Full error
Character set 'utf8mb4' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the '/usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index.xml' file
InvalidArgumentException: There was a problem connecting to ...
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Change default collation for character set utf8mb4 to utf8mb4_unicode_ci
When creating a database without specifying a character set or collation the servers defaults are used (as expected).
MariaDB [(none)]> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%_server' ;
+----------------------+----...
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Postgres special character rendering
I have an old Sql Server db with a ‘free entry’ field that is being accessed via a Postgres 10.6 foreign table. This field contains a lot of garbage characters (higher than Ascii 128) which Postgres ...
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MySQL: columns with mixed character encodings, and finding columns which have multibyte data
I have some rather large CSV files that I am loading into my MySQL 5.7 database. The files are several gigabytes in size, several million lines long, and have large column widths that must be used in ...
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Why doesn't MySQL coerce the collation to the column-specified, when comparing to a literal?
I have a table with a collation defined on a column:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE test_table (
utf8_col VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin
);
INSERT INTO test_table VALUES('ã');
According ...
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Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\xA4\x96<b…' for column 'body' at row 1 [closed]
I've set the column type to utf8mb4 and the collation to utf8mb4_bin.
The table defaults are also utf8mb4 and utf8mb4_bin.
When I use SequelPro to add the emoji "🤖" to the database manually, it ...
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MySQL utf8mb4 Migration - Replication Considerations
We're planning to migrate a MySQL database with a mix utf8 and latin1 tables to the new utf8mb4 character set per this article: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4.
Our server is 5.7.22 and ...
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Using CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET for changing only collation?
I think the answer to this is an obvious yes, but I'm having trouble finding confirmation on it. All the questions related to charsets seems to be about changing the charset and not only collations.
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Resolving “there is unknown charset/collation names” warnings on views
I recently moved our MySQL 5.6 server over to MariaDB 10.3.10 and, for the most part, have not had any problems. We have a couple of databases that have close to 1000 views which are now filling the ...
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How do I use 'N' in my prepared SELECT statement
I'm connecting to an SQL Server 2008 database using pdo and the ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server.
I'm trying to run the following query which searches the database for Chinese characters:
SELECT TOP (...
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Error starting SQL Server 2017 service. Error Code 3417
I have SQL Server 2017 installed on my computer. This is what SELECT @@VERSION returns:
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RTM-GDR) (KB4293803) - 14.0.2002.14 (X64) Jul 21 2018 07:47:45 Copyright (C) ...
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Wrong sort order using utf8_unicode_ci and swedish characters like ö
I am confused about what encoding and collation I should use so my queries returns the correct sort order.
Right now my encoding is UTF-8 Unicode and collation utf8_unicode_ci for both firstname and ...
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Convert Character Encoding, and Check Encoding for Issues
I'm planning to convert a table from utf8 (_general_ci) to utf8mb4 (utf8mb4_unicode_ci). I want to make sure I don't have any malformed data after the conversion though so I was planning to duplicate ...
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Apostrophe shows up as “ÔÇÖ” [closed]
I pulled data out of a database and the apostrophe is showing up as "ÔÇÖ". What character set is this from?
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MySQL does not read user specific options in ~/.my.cnf
I want the server to run an initial SQL query every time it starts:
[mysqld]
init-connect='SET NAMES utf8mb4'
and I want it to be only user specific not globally. so I created a .my.cnf in my user's ...
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Using character set en_us.364 in Informix database DB_LOCALE
I am trying to change my db_locale to en_us.364 which is an ASCII character set. It says on IBM's Knowledge Center that 364 is a valid character set:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/...
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Converting and/or enforcing an Ascii Character Set in Informix database from 819 or ISO Latin 1
Overview: In Informix is it possible to enforce ASCII for a database or instance.
Details: I am trying to enforce ASCII in an instance of informix for a while. This is to help have a smooth ...
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How to fix accented character substitutions on French text in MySQL db
I'm building a small database for a charity I volunteer with. It will track events in English and French. When I enter characters like an accented e (as in "journée") it appears in the database as (...
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Why does the varchar datatype allow unicode values?
I have a table with a varchar column. It is allowing Trademark(™), copyright(©) and other Unicode characters as shown below.
Create table VarcharUnicodeCheck
(
col1 varchar(100)
)
insert into ...
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convert default charset utf8 tables to utf8mb4 mysql 5.7.17
I tried the following steps to upgrade CHARSET to utf8mb4 and to connect it to the existing backend server.
ALTER TABLE users CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
update the ...
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Oracle Character Set/Database 11 to 12 Migration Options
Topic/Questions: Oracle Character Set/Database 11 to 12 Migration Options
Task:
Migrating production Oracle EE 11.2.0.4 single instance database with NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1 to existing remote ...
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Issue with Hebrew characters in mysql
Lately i have migrated some schemas from mysql 4 to mysql 5.6. Everything works fine except one issue: Hebrew characters appears in Gibberish.
Here is the current configuration:
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '...
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How do I list all available encoding types available in postgreSQL?
SELECT datname, pg_encoding_to_char(encoding)
FROM pg_database;
…lists all the databases, each with its encoding type.
However, I am trying to find out what are all the encoding types available in ...
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How do I set MySQL's “character_set_server” and “collation_server” variables when creating a database?
I'm using MySQL 5.5.37. How do I set the default "" and "" variables of my database when initially creating my db? I'm logged in as the root user but my command is not cutting it, as you can see ...
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German umlaute represented by questionmarks when latin1 is used
I'm almost certain this has come up before but I couldn't find anything regarding it.
My problem is that I've a database and a database server (and every table and column inside) set to latin1/...
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Loading MySQL Dump From one Character Set to Another
As you can see from these configuration differences, the MySQL server is configured with latin1, while the MariaDB server is using utf8mb4:
Variable MySQL Server MariaDB Server
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Converting character sets and foreign key constaints
I'm trying to convert the character set and collation of my MySQL database and all containing tables from utf8/utf8_unicode_ci to utf8mb4/utf8mb4_unicode_ci.
I will refer to my database name as: MyDB
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Error during CSSCAN of Oracle11 database
I have an issue when trying to change the character set on an Oracle 11.2 database.
Here are the particulars:
Oracle 11.2 64 bit, running under Oracle Linux 7
This is a new installation (i.e. the ...
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Collations and codesets in PostgreSQL 9.x
In Windows 7, the collation is set to "English_United States.1252" when I select the "English, United States" locale in the installer. In Linux, the collation is set to "en_US.UTF-8" by default.
I ...
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Character set query in Oracle12c
I have created my Oracle 12c database with database character set as AL32UTF8 and I have been told by the developers that it needs to be changed to UTF8.
National character set is UTF8.
Is it ...
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How do MariaDB and MySQL differ in character set handling?
In MySQL/MariaDB, I set the connection character set to UTF-8:
SET NAMES 'utf8mb4';
SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8mb4';
There are some tables with a latin1_swedish_ci collation and latin1 encoded data in ...
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CMD prompt can't display Unicode characters that are stored in oracle database correctly
I've been meddling with charset/encoding problems of Oracle database, PL/SQL developer and JDBC and these are what I want to achieve:
Input Unicode characters from a browser into the database
Display ...
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UTF8 Trouble while migrating from MSSQL to MySQL with MySQL Workbench
I am tasked with migrating part of our database from an on-site MSSQL server to an Amazon RDS MySQL. This will be my first attempt with a database migration, so I am doing a dry run from our MSSQL ...
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Stored Procedure Is Slower Than Query Due to Collation
I'm running two servers with MySql installed. I'm having an issue with a slow stored procedure (approximately 3 secs vs 0.1 seconds), solely on my production server, that is very quick on development ...
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character set, not set correctly
I have two database with a table with utf8 table, I wanted to change the encoding of a column, I used two scenarios but a problem happened to me.
at first the table was like this :
CREATE TABLE `...
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ERROR 1071 (42000): Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes
I have a databases with latin1 charachter set, I need to change tables character set to utf8, but I get error. the current character set is :
mysql> show variables like "%character%";
+-----------...
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How large space will be occupied by mysql for a varchar utf8 column?
Tip: To save space with UTF-8, use VARCHAR instead of CHAR. Otherwise, MySQL must reserve three bytes for each character in a CHAR CHARACTER SET utf8 column because that is the maximum possible length....
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What are the side effects of changing MySQL `character_set_server`?
I am having some strange issues with character sets on my system. After digging through all kinds of settings, I found a discrepancy in my character set settings.
When I run show variables like '...
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Convert all the data of table (which have both encoding data) into single encoding either utf8 or latin1 [closed]
We have table which consists of two different encoding data (utf8 and latin1) which has been inserted from two different use cases of application. We are getting broken strings issue for other ...
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howto choose the right character set in MariaDB
if there are multiple character sets that can properly encode my data, how to choose one?
Is there any difference in disk or memory usage?
When joining tables do they need the same char set?
Other ...
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Oracle DB export, possible charset conversion if NLS_LANG not set
I need to export an Oracle database from one server and import it on another server. But I am getting the following information message at the beginning:
Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Release ...
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Cannot set character_set_database and character_set_server to utf8mb4
I'm trying to convert my MySQL server and its already existing schemas to the utf8mb4 character set.
Preliminary Notes:
I'm using Xampp (with MySQL 5.6.24). Default options are read from the ...
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Which accented characters are considered the same?
In MySQL, certain characters are considered the same when performing searches, e.g. 'n' and 'ñ'; unless you specify BINARY in the condition.
Is there a list somewhere of the characters that are ...
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Properly configuring Oracle Charset and NLS parameters
I'm trying to figure out the reason why Oracle SQL Developer shows question marks/rubbish on non-latin symbols. Currently I have 2 DBs on separate severs/instances, one of which works fine, and the ...
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Are there any known problems caused by having NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS set to CHAR on an Oracle database?
I've always thought that anyone using a database where NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS set to BYTE when using a multi-byte character set needed their heads examined, but recently a customer of ours said that ...
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How to disable case sensitivity in SQL Server 2012?
I tried to update collation_name in sys.databases. I am trying to change 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS' to 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS' in order to disable case sensitivity in table.
update d set d....
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Trying to support unicode in MySQL database
I am doing a project in which I have to save tweets into my MySQL database. The problem is some tweets contains smilies and other symbols which I am not able to save - it shows error like below:
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