This chapter provides tutorial notes on sending non-ASCII text data to MySQL. Topics include sending non-ASCII text data in SQL statements; changing MySQL character set settings to send Latin1, UTF-8, BGK, and Big5 characters.
This chapter provides tutorial notes on character set and encoding in MySQL. Topics include defining text columns with specific character set encodings; encoding conversions performed by MySQL on SQL statements and result sets; fetching non-ASCII characters in UTF-8 encoding.