Georg, Do you guys support UTF-16? It'd be nice if we could just feed MySQL UTF-16 and you'd do the right thing. It'd save us from having to convert to UTF-8. Sure you'd have to most probably do it for us but it's easier when the DB driver does the work.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Georg Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:04 PM > To: Andrei Zmievski > Cc: Rangel Reale; PHP I18N > Subject: Re: [PHP-I18N] PHP 6: Mysql with iso-8859-1 chars > outputting utf-8: "Could not convert binary string to Unicode string" > > Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > Georg, > > > > Can you look into this? > > > > -Andrei > > > > Hi!, > > >> > >> mysql_query('set names latin1', $this->mysql_link); > > That doesn't work when unicode.semantics is on. When running > with unicode.semantics=on mysql extension expects data from > server in utf8. > > > >> > >> mysql_query('set names utf8', $this->mysql_link); > > You don't need to do that, after calling mysql_connect the > utf8 character set will be set by default. > > >> > >> it works, but I would like to keep compatibility with PHP > 5, and for > >> my application it requires set names to be latin1. Also, > my databases > >> are not created with the "utf8" option. > > MySQL Server takes care of the conversion, so if your tables > are in latin1, and default character set is utf8 data will be > converted on server side. > > /Georg > -- > Georg Richter, Development Manager - Connectors & Client > Connectivity MySQL GmbH, Radlkoferstr. 2, D-81373 München, > www.mysql.com > Geschäftsführer: Hans von Bell, Kaj Arnö - HRB München 162140 > > -- > PHP Unicode & I18N Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Unicode & I18N Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
