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February 21, 2012 15:46
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Convert database to UTF-8
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mysqldump --user=username --password --default-character-set=latin1 --skip-set-charset dbname > dump.sql | |
sed 's/latin1/utf8/g' dump.sql > dump_utf.sql | |
mysql --user=username --password --execute="DROP DATABASE dbname; CREATE DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;" | |
mysql --user=username --password --default-character-set=utf8 dbname < dump_utf.sql |
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