Converting MySQL tables to UTF-8
Quick and easy code to convert the character set of a MySQL table to UTF-8. Of course this works for all character sets not just UTF ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
Quick and easy code to convert the character set of a MySQL table to UTF-8. Of course this works for all character sets not just UTF ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
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