PhpMyAdmin import/export - strange character encoding issues.
- by John Hunt
Hello,
I'm migrating a site to a new host, and there are a couple of databases on there. There's no SSH access so I'm stuck with phpmyadmin. The issue is that certain characters (namely just whitespace) seems to being corrupt on the new site (same html, and apache doesn't seem to be messing with any encodings - you can see the strange characters have changed when I use less on my linux machine after downloading a table dump from both servers.)
The issue isn't as bad if I import into the new database as utf-8 - whitespace characters only have one funny A type symbol instead of two.
I've been trying various combinations of character encoding etc to no avail.
Exporting from:
phpMyAdmin 2.6.2 MySQL 4.1.20 MySQL
connection collation: utf8_general_ci
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
Collation on tables and their fields
is: latin1_swedish_ci
Importing to:
phpMyAdmin - 2.11.9.2
MySQL client version: 5.0.45
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
MySQL connection collation: utf8_general_ci
The import sql has this kind of thing in it:
ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=192 ;
I get the impression this is actually a bug or something with mysqldump as nothing seems to work.. does anyone have any insight into this?
Cheers,
John.
