Re: Encoding problems

Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Hmm, would it be possible to make a simple commandline tool to run this
> > process, checking the current charsets of midgard and mysql and making
> > sure that they are correctly set and advising the user on what to do? I
> > bet we'll see a lot of issues like this one in the coming year.
> 
> Good idea. The process is a bit dangerous and involves a lot of nasty
> corner cases (a database could use different character sets for
> different sites), but with good backups, proper checking, and user
> interaction it could probably be made safe enough.

I just added "Convert" option to dg. 
But I wonder about one thing. How one may dump db with character information 
using MySQL 4.0 ? This seems to be supported by MySQL >= 4.1.

Piotras