>-----Original Message----- >From: C.R.Vegelin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:42 AM >To: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: data truncation warnings by special characters > >Hi List, > >I get strange "Data truncated for column Description" warnings >when loading a tab separated file with special characters.
[JS] I should have mentioned that when I tried the same operations using server version 5.0.45, I got a much more meaningful error message: Incorrect string value: '\x96 Urug...' for column 'prod_title' at row 1 Are you running a 4.x server? >The definition of the target table is: > >CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp >( Code CHAR(8) NOT NULL, > Description TEXT NOT NULL, > KEY Code (Code) >) ENGINE = MyISAM CHARSET=UTF8; > >The Load Into statement I use is: > >LOAD DATA INFILE 'D:/Input/Data.txt' INTO TABLE tmp >FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' IGNORE 0 LINES; > >The truncation warnings are caused by words like PURÉES. >This leads to a truncted Description field like: "Jams, Jellies, Pur". > >Any idea how to solve this ? > >Thanks in advance, Cor -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]