Convert MySQL 4.0 data from Arabic to UTF8

Hi,I have a database (MySQL 4.0) that using Arabic-1256 encoded data. Iwant to convert all of tables to UTF-8.I can not download, convert and upload the database becasue of thesize of DB and my connection speed. Any one have any idea to convertby code (PHP, Perl, ...) - Sadeq On 12/5/05, Behdad

Re: MySQL 4.0, FULL-TEXT Indexing and Search Arabic Data, Unicode

Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > That's the tricky part, or where the runtime-hell comes in. What > I did was to write a small java program based on the samples in > Lucene to connect to my database and feed the data into Lucene. > At search time, I have another little Java program that takes the > q

Lucene ports

Just a quick note that if you falling in love with Lucene, there are currently ports of it available to the following languages: Python, Perl, Ruby, C#, and C++ Some of them are older, some less polished, but the C# and C++ ones are really good. --behdad http://behdad.org/ "Commandment Thr