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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. smart quotes? more like stupid fucked up quotes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    am i right or what?

  2. Re:how about ... by BigDumbAnimal · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've done it recently to a database which was around the 60gig mark with 2 million tables. Who in the heck has 2 million tables in a database?