I can read the MySQL documentation and it’s pretty clear. But, how does one decide which character set to use? On what data does collation have an effect? I’m asking for an explanation of the two and how to choose them. 4 Answers 4
What is the fastest, easiest tool or method to convert text files between character sets? Specifically, I need to convert from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-15 and vice versa. Everything goes: one-liners in your favorite scripting language, command-line tools or other utilities for OS, web sites, etc. Best solutions so far: On Linux/UNIX/OS X/cygwin: Gnu iconv suggested … Read more
Between utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci, are there any differences in terms of performance? 8
