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Migrate a MySQL Database Preserving Special Characters

Posted by kdawson on from the encoding-juju dept.

TomSlick writes "Michael Chu's blog provides a good solution for people migrating their MySQL databases and finding that special characters (like smart quotes) get mangled. He presents two practical solutions to migrating the database properly."

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  1. Re:How is this news? by kestasjk · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there's a chance of starting a PostgreSQL vs MySQL flamewar, it's news.

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