In UTF-8 é is two "characters" in length (I think).  You need to allow extra 
space in the database columns


On 2011-11-08, at 12:19 PM, Johnny Miller wrote:

> OK,
> 
> this is getting stranger by the moment.
> 
> This string works:
> 10 oz portion broiled with Buzzs Season Sautéed Hamakua Mushroom
> 
> And this string works:
> 10 oz portion broiled with Buzzs Season Sauteed Hamakua Mushrooms
> 
> This string does not work:
> 10 oz portion broiled with Buzzs Season Sautéed Hamakua Mushrooms
> 
> The difference being that the last string contains the é and is one character 
> longer than the first string.  If I add the character anywhere else it also 
> fails.
> 
> Johnny Miller
> Kahalawai Media Corp.
> www.kahalawai.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 8, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Ray Kiddy wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 7, 2011, at 10:48 PM, Johnny Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi 
>>> 
>>> I'm getting an com.webobjects.eoaccess.EOGeneralAdaptorException (-- error 
>>> code: 1366 -- msg: Incorrect string value: '\xE9ed Ha...' for column 
>>> 'DESCRIPTION' at row 1) when savings characters like é.  I'm using a MySQL 
>>> database 5.5 with the encoding set to UTF-8 unicode and the collation set 
>>> to utf8_general_ci.  The encoding and collation settings on the table and 
>>> column appear to match the database.  And this issue seems to only effect 
>>> columns using the type LONGTEXT.
>>> 
>>> Can someone point me to where I have gone wrong?
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> 
>>> Johnny Miller _______________________________________________
>> 
>> Can you send SQL output, from setting EOAdaptorDebugEnabled?
>> 
>> The fact that you are using a column named "DESCRIPTION" is making me 
>> uncomfortable. It may be fine. In the old days, there were vestiges of the 
>> Objective-C tools hanging around and it would have been very bad to get in 
>> the way of NSObject's [description] method. We are probably past needing to 
>> worry about, though. Still. And you cannot use "DESC" since that is a MySQL 
>> keyword. I usually use "note" or "annotation" or something like that for a 
>> "description" column.
>> 
>> This might end up being a really great test case. Can you send in some 
>> version of your table create statements? I could try to reproduce the 
>> problem. I have not had cause to use LONGTEXT specifically. Does the problem 
>> not occur when using some other, similar data types? I would be curious if 
>> the MySQL forums say anything about LONGTEXT in particular.
>> 
>> What encoding are you using for strings in your java code? Is it the default 
>> encoding? What platform are you on? The default encoding is different for 
>> Mac OS X than for Linux versions and (I would assume) for different Windows 
>> versions.
>> 
>> The question is also going to be asked: Which version of WO are you using? 
>> Are you also using Wonder? Which MySQL plugin are you using? WO's or 
>> Wonder's?
>> 
>> I have had to learn entirely too much about encodings and all the ways this 
>> can get screwed up in the last few months. I would not want to do a brain 
>> dump of all that crap on the list, but we can talk off-list if it would help.
>> 
>> cheers - ray
>> 
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