I thought you might be interested in how far I have got with solving my problem with MySql(via phpMyAdmin) to website character_set problems.
I thought I had solved the problem when my characters on my website started showing the special characters. This was a partial success though. When I went back to phpMyAdmin and entered new text the problem was the same, but reversed. What now happens is that the original text I typed is now converted to gibberish(Latin1 to UTF8) and new text entered, in phpMyAdmin, is output to website as "?" again See:- http://donsgarden.co.uk/pests/228?telephone=2 What I did, as I could not change the server Craracter_set and Collation (Shared Server). I got my host to change everything back to Latin1. I was going to change my w/site meta line to ISO 8859-1. >From connecting to my database via ssh I got:- mysql> show variables like 'c%'; +--------------------------+----------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +--------------------------+----------------------------+ | character_set_client | latin1 | | character_set_connection | latin1 | | character_set_database | latin1 | | character_set_filesystem | binary | | character_set_results | latin1 | | character_set_server | latin1 | | character_set_system | utf8 | | character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ | | collation_connection | latin1_swedish_ci | | collation_database | latin1_swedish_ci | | collation_server | latin1_swedish_ci | | completion_type | 0 | | concurrent_insert | 1 | | connect_timeout | 10 | +--------------------------+----------------------------+ 14 rows in set (0.00 sec) Great I thought, but when I use phpMyAdmin to issue the same command I got:- show variables like 'c%'; Variable_name Value character_set_client utf8 character_set_connection utf8 character_set_database latin1 character_set_filesystem binary character_set_results utf8 character_set_server latin1 character_set_system utf8 character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ collation_connection utf8_general_ci collation_database latin1_swedish_ci collation_server latin1_swedish_ci completion_type 0 concurrent_insert 1 connect_timeout 10 Perhaps when I sort this out I will reach my ultimate goal of entering text in phpMyAdmin and having it displayed on my website correctly. Many thanks for all the help it has got me this far and now I have hope I will solve the problem in the end. Don -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
