[Owncloud] Can someone with knowledge of file saving loading have a look at this?

Klaas Freitag freitag at owncloud.com
Tue Jun 19 15:09:25 UTC 2012


On 19.06.2012 16:58, Thomas Tanghus wrote:

Hi,

>> Hmm, as I see in the bug below, you already checked the system encodings.
>> Maybe the MySQL database is NOT set the UTF-8?  It seems that the MySQL
>> database is not UTF-8 by default but has to be created like this:
>
> I asked them to change the collation manually in comment #1 to rule that out.
But did they change all the existing tables and data? See below...
>
>> CREATE DATABASE `Sample_DB` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE
>> utf8_general_ci;
>
> I did try to merge the request below, but it apparently failed because of sql
> syntax error. I don't know how to make sure existing tables are updated to
> using utf-8, and to be honest I don't want to mess with the db setup code :-P
Thats good, as its tricky. See here:
http://yoonkit.blogspot.de/2006/03/mysql-charset-from-latin1-to-utf8.html

Klaas

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