Can't insert unicode into mysql - mysql

Question

I am having a problem with mysql when I tried to insert unicode (chinese here) in mysql, for example, I want to insert:
insert into site_parameter(name) values("测试");
however in mysql terminal, it become:
mysql> insert into site_parameter(name) values("");
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
I can't even type chinese under the mysql terminal.
here is my.conf
[client]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld]
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci
init-connect='SET NAMES utf8'
character-set-server = utf8
I have checked the collation:
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'char%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
mysql> show create table site_parameter;
| site_parameter | CREATE TABLE `site_parameter` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` varchar(64) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`description` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=388 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci |
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
could anyone help?

Answer 1

There is a charset property in console window (CMD).
You can check current or set another with chcp command -
>chcp
>will output current
>chcp 65001
>will set utf-8
Some information about this command - Chcp.

Answer 2

As Devart said, the link below does provide the solution:
https://superuser.com/questions/55224/change-the-default-codepage-from-latin1-to-utf8-on-a-linux-machine
Here is the solution detail:
Edit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local and add your locale to the list of supported locales if it isn't there already, eg:
en_US UTF-8
Regenerate the supported locales on your machine:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Open /etc/default/locale and check if LANG and LANGUAGE are changed:
LANG="en_US"
LANGUAGE="en_US:UTF-8"
if they are not, you can manually update them now.
reboot.