I'm trying to convert some mysql tables from latin1 to utf8. I'm using the following command, which seems to mostly work. ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_c...

I want to disallow certain UTF-8 input (server-side), e.g. eastern languages, where example input might be " 伊 ". However, I do want to continue supporting other latin or "latin-like" characters, ...

I'm working on a series of parsers where I get a bunch of tracebacks from my unit tests like: File "c:\Python31\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,se...

In a mySql table I'm using Latin1 character set to store text in a varchar field. As our website now is supported in more countries we need support for UTF8 instead. What will happen if I change th...

what is the difference between utf8 and latin1?

I am being sent text files saved in ISO 88591-1 format that contain accented characters from the Latin-1 range (as well as normal ASCII a-z, etc.). How do I convert these files to UTF-8 using C# so...