Can anyone tell me how can i store for example russian words in database? Please write an example. I know that i must use unicode, but don't know how use with mySql.
Thanks all for response.
You should create a database with utf8 character set and russian collation.
Find the russian collation:
SHOW COLLATION LIKE '%russian%'
Then create the database:
CREATE DATABASE db_name CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE latin1_russian_ci;
You can also ALTER it if you already have one.
Read the manual here https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-database.html
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I am making use of mysql 5.0. Is there a way to store a string containing different language other than english? I tried to store the language Kannada but its storing it as "?????". i even tried changing encoding to utf-8, dosent work. (sqlyog)
Simply use the following query to change the column as utf8:
ALTER TABLE TableName MODIFY ColumnName VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET UTF8;
change the field collation to :-
utf8_general_ci
You should execute this command..
ALTER TABLE CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
I want to store languages other than English in MySQL database using Ruby. I've tried to store Hindi language characters in MySQL database, but got ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid error. Here is the attached screenshot -
Please help me solve this problem. Thanks in advance.
You could run the following command on your desired table(s):
ALTER TABLE <table_name> CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
MySQL docs on collation and character set configuration.
Hope it helps!
I have a DB which stores usernames, passwords, and basic info. The 'info' however, only stores English characters.
How to store data in different languages, let's say English, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc.? I realized that default collation doesn't support that.
What is the best solution, and how do you guys get around it?
Change the default collation of the whole database and also of the table(s) to utf8_general_ci. There is no reason to suffer (with this kind of free form data).
ALTER DATABASE db CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE tbl CONVERT TO utf8
ALTER TABLE tbl CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
Read about a few gotchas at the end of this page.
I am unable to save the character 𥚃 on mySQL 5.5. I have tried collation utf8mb4 and utf32. I have to store both Chinese and English characters in the same table.
I was able to save this charecter by using utf8mb4 charecterset on mysql server. So the output of show variables like 'char%'; should be all utf8mb4 except for perhaps system charset.
Try utf8 general, and also, don't change to execute
SET NAMES utf8;
beore the actual query, which is quite an important part
Non-english characters are messed up in a text column. Arabic text looks like this:
نـجـم سـهـيـل
How to store non-english characters correctly?
You should consider using utf8 to store your text.
You can do this at the database creation:
CREATE DATABASE mydb
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8
DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
You can also configure mysql at installation or at startup to use utf8 (see Mysql manual)
The mysql manual pages cover all aspects of characterset and collations: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset.html
The character set of the connection can be changed by
SET CHARACTER SET utf8
More details here and in the chapter Character set support
What OS are you using?
If Linux then it's good to have a system locale set to utf8 also, like "en_US.utf8".
And, to be sure, issue an "SET NAMES UTF8" command to mysql just after connection.
(db character set/collation must also be utf8)
The query below solved the issue.
ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;