| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | On 2021-11-27 18:04, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | > | > Do you have shell access? I think you imply "yes". | | Yes, I do, but not to the database server. All I have for that is socket | access and PHPMyAdmin (blecch).
Ahh. Kind of "no". | > Does "fix it" mean "changed the raw data" or mangle the data somewhere | > downstream of the disk files? | | "fix it" meant "broke it". I quoted "fix it" because I understood that. | The MySQL DB tables seem to have been quietly | reprocessed from one encoding to another. That seems (1) odd and (2) rude. Is there a chance that the problem is actually in presenting the data (due to some incorrect setting of a locale somewhere)? Can you ask you supplier just what happened, why, and if they can reverse it for you? There is a chance that the transformation was bijective (or at least injective) and thus reversible. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
