Don Mapp wrote: > 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.
Why did you start a new thread and make it harder to refer to the original problem? For reference, the old thread is at http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/216878 . > > 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) UTF8 is what you want to be using. > > 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. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Why are you using a shared host (not generally a great idea for Rails)? Worse, why are you using a host that doesn't let you change your own DB charset settings? Even shared hosting should let you do that. If not, find another hosting provider. 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 Yuck! That's really inconsistent. Change it all to UTF-8. > > 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. I agree with Colin -- don't worry too much about phpMyAdmin. Worry about the actual DB. If you want to build an admin tool quickly, try ActiveScaffold. And follow the advice in the older thread. It will stand you in better stead than what you've actually done. > > 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. You will -- if you actually *take* the advice given to you. :) > Don Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
