View Japanese Characters in MySQL Workbench - mysql

Question

I already tried This solution which says
ALTER TABLE title
CHARACTER SET utf8
COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
Ok here are some screen shots which might help you.
Update
here's what happens when i insert Japanese characters.
Update 2
Show create table gives this
CREATE TABLE `productInfo` (
`pID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`pOperation` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET latin1 DEFAULT NULL,
`year` year(4) DEFAULT NULL,
`season` varchar(10) CHARACTER SET latin1 DEFAULT NULL,
`pName` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET latin1 DEFAULT NULL,
`category` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET latin1 DEFAULT NULL,
`margin1` text CHARACTER SET latin1,
`margin2` text CHARACTER SET latin1,
PRIMARY KEY (`pID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=12 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci
just see that
DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci
But now see that the query
SELECT character_set_name, collation_name
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_schema = 'trac_data'
AND table_name = 'productInfo'
AND column_name = 'pOperation';
gives
character_set_name collation_name
'latin1' 'latin1_swedish_ci'
Thats weird !
Update 3
SELECT hex(pOperation),pOperation FROM trac_data.productInfo;
gave 3F3F3F3F3F which is hex code for actual '?' and not any japanese character so that means no japanese characters are being stored

Answer 1

You have a mix of charsets in your table structure. The table itself uses utf8, but the column in question uses latin 1. You have it defined that way. As long as you have an own charset for your column you can change the table's or the schema's column a thousand times. It won't have any effect on your column. So, instead change the column's charset to either default (to use that of the table) or make it using utf8 explicitely.
When you alter the column's charset existing data will be converted (if possible). Your wrong input however stays wrong, so you have to fill the data again.

Answer 2

Ok i found the cause
CREATE TABLE `productInfo` (
`pID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`pOperation` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET latin1 DEFAULT NULL,
`year` year(4) DEFAULT NULL,
`season` varchar(10) CHARACTER SET latin1 DEFAULT NULL,
`pName` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET latin1 DEFAULT NULL,
`category` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET latin1 DEFAULT NULL,
`margin1` text CHARACTER SET latin1,
`margin2` text CHARACTER SET latin1,
PRIMARY KEY (`pID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=12 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci
I noticed how in front of each column SET latin1 was present.
So I Just changed to sjis and problem solved.

Answer 3

You have to set the database collation to UTF-8, not only the table collation :
Here is the SQL script result :