Issue when inserting Chinese data with code first and mysql - mysql

Question

I've done a project in ASP.NET MVC 3 using Mysql. To create a database, I use code first ef 4.1. Some of the data I insert in my database is Chinese characters. When I insert the data, it appears with ????. I set my connectionString in my web config like this:
add name="mydbcontext" connectionString="server=localhost;user id=root; password=; database=mydbcontext; pooling=false; charset=utf8;" providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"
But the problem's still there... This is the way I use to insert the data:
public class MyMenu {
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Home { get; set; }
public string About { get; set; }
public string AppForSmartphone { get; set; }
public string Games { get; set; }
public string Softwares { get; set; }
public string Language { get; set; }
public string News { get; set; }
public string Cart { get; set; }
}
public class MyDbContext : DbContext {
public DbSet<MyMenu> MyMenus { get; set; }
public MyDbContext()
: base("MyDbContext") {
}
}
private MyDbContext db = new MyDbContext();
MyMenu tmpmenu = new MyMenu {
About = 關於,
Id = 1,
Cart = 車,
News = 新聞,
AppForSmartphone = 應用程序的智能手機,
Games = 遊戲,
Softwares = 軟件,
Home = 家,
Language = ""
};
db.MyMenus.Add(tmpmenu);
db.SaveChanges();
Can someone help me?

Answer 1

There is no Issue in your code.You just need to check the DataType of the column in which you are saving the data which is in Chinese.I guess you have used varchar() , rather you should be using nvarchar().
I had the same issue a day back. And changing the datatype to nvarchar() fixed my issue.
MySql does support multilingual.
Changing the DataType should fix your issue.
Regards.