Hello, Sorry if this has been addressed but I couldn't find a reference in the list archive.
We have a number of columns containing suggested gene names for our organism which contain greek letters (alpha, beta, etc) as part of the names. These are stored OK in the mart MySQL database, as I've verified at the command line using mysql and SELECT... However, martview is not showing them up correctly, for instance the alpha character (?) is showing up as α (capital I hat plus/minus). Now I understand a little of the basics of character sets, so I know it is an ongoing bane, but is there a way to configure e.g. MySQL to propagate this data correctly from back to front-end? (Regardless of whether this is a great idea, in terms of gene nomenclature!) Dr. Jay Moore Senior Research Fellow in Bioinformatics -- Warwick Systems Biology Centre Coventry House University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL U.K. +44 (0)24 761 50332 http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/systemsbiology/
