MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 10.1.5 Configuring the Character Set and Collation for Applic

Wow, skip-character-set-client-handshake saved my day! Old MySQL4.1 setup users had the habit to do "odd" things (having latin2 table but storing utf8 in it, not specifying charset encoding from PHP on the connection etc). I had long hours to solve the pr

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