MySql Database showing ???? for Hindi Fonts - mysql

Question

I am trying to save Hindi content in db so for that i made changes in table as well with this query
ALTER TABLE group_distribution CHARACTER SET UTF8;
and when i run this query
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%';
I got below result
character_set_client utf8
character_set_connection utf8
character_set_database latin1
character_set_filesystem binary
character_set_results utf8
character_set_server latin1
character_set_system utf8
character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/
What changes i have to made so my DB support other languages too ?

Answer 1

I got the issue ..Issue is related to table definition see below
CREATE TABLE `group_distribution` (
`gd_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`gd_tweet` varchar(500) CHARACTER SET latin1 NOT NULL,
`gd_ht` varchar(45) CHARACTER SET latin1 DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_created_by` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_team_lead` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_send_to` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_added_dt` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
`gt_update_dt` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_active_flag` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`gd_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
Here you can check it clearly show gd_tweet` varchar(500) CHARACTER SET latin1 NOT NULL, have diffrent characterset thats why created issue now i changed it to
CREATE TABLE `group_distribution` (
`gd_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`gd_tweet` varchar(500) CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL,
`gd_ht` varchar(45) CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_created_by` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_team_lead` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_send_to` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_added_dt` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
`gt_update_dt` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`gt_active_flag` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`gd_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Answer 2

ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8;