On 02.02.2011 06:21, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>>> River Tarnell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any subtle options that need to be set on mysqldump to make
>>> sure the output is usable in that environment?
>>
>> In previous versions of MySQL it was necessary to use 'mysqldump 
>> --default-character-set=latin1' if you had tables marked as Latin-1 
>> which actually contained UTF-8 data.  Otherwise, the dump would be 
>> corrupted and unusable.

Use --default-character-set BINARY for export with mysqldump *and* for import
with the mysql client. This should preserve your original data, no matter what.

-- daniel

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