I agree with Per, I use utf8 and it works fine for me, even with Chinese characters
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Per Jessen <p...@computer.org> wrote: > PJ wrote: > > > Let me put it this way, I am not having the problem. The problem seems > > to be withthe way that character encoding is set up on the internet - > > as confused and inconsistent as most everything else. > > You can put whatever charset you want in the header, in the collations > > in your database, your htmls... you see already that the options start > > to multiply rapidly... > > You're making it more complicated than it is. Just stick to UTF8 and > you'll be fine. > > > without even considering the browsers. So, I > > have tried about all combinations possible and there is no one way to > > implement display and use of accents. > > Sure there is. UTF-8. Period. > > > UTF-8 does not handle them very well at all; iso-8895-1 doesn't > > either; you can set the coding on your browser to whatever you want - > > when you update or reload the file the little black diamond devils > > come back or turn into little blank squares on IE8... > > I think we've gone OT here, but honestly I have no problem with accents > nor any other special characters anywhere - database, browser, > whereever. And yes, I work with 4-5 different languages on a daily > basis. > > > /Per Jessen, Zürich > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=isart.mont...@gmail.com > >
