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sehummel
sehummel

Reputation: 5568

MySQL convert table from Latin1 to utf8

I need to convert a table with a lot of data from Latin1 to utf8 so that it can accept Korean characters. How do I alter that table without corrupting the data that's in there? What would my SQL statement be? What's the best way to proceed?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 9091

Answers (2)

Tass
Tass

Reputation: 1628

ALTER TABLE database_name.table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8;

Upvotes: 12

leonbloy
leonbloy

Reputation: 76026

Export (dump) the database, and reimport it with the new encoding.

http://alexking.org/blog/2008/03/06/mysql-latin1-utf8-conversion

Upvotes: 2

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