If asked the question, “What is the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?”, would you confidently reply with a short and precise answer? In these days of internationalization all developers should be able to do that. I suspect many of us do not understand these concepts as well as we should. If you feel you belong to this group, you should read this ultra short introduction to character sets and encodings.
Converting a mysql database from latin1 to utf8
Posted on March 01, 2010
This week I successfully converted Virtual Managers mysql database from latin1 (aka. iso-8859-1) to UTF8. Since I guess I’m not the last person to do this, I’ll here share how I did it.
