Try putting this useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF8
in the connection string field of the datasource. By default, the drivers use ISO-8859-1, because that's MySQL supported when it was written. cheers, banreyb On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:00:28 -0500, Christian Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason, I'm not able to get the UTF8 character set to work > properly with MySQL 4.1. I'm specifying the character set when > creating my tables, but any non-latin character comes out as a question > mark. I had this working fine in previous versions of MySQL, but 4.1 > isn't cooperating. ColdFusion seems to be handing the encoding well, > but not MySQL. I am using the INNODB engine, so I'm wondering if > that's the problem, but MySQL is not returning any error messages -- > just garbage. Any ideas? > > (After sending this, I'll try it w/o INNODB to see what happens, but I > don't think that will fix it.) > > Thanks, > Christian > > -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 50 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195478 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
