NiceCabbage Blog » mysql http://www.nicecabbage.com Life, Design, Web Application Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:03:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 using UTF8 in MySQL5 http://www.nicecabbage.com/2009/07/using-utf8-in-mysql5/ http://www.nicecabbage.com/2009/07/using-utf8-in-mysql5/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:34:53 +0000 admin http://www.nicecabbage.com/?p=120 Problem

You want to set the default character encoding to UTF8 everywhere in your MySQL

Solution

Edit my.cnf.

On Debian or Ubuntu Linux, you can find my.cnf at /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Add those lines below. 

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8
 
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8
 
[mysqldump]
default-character-set=utf8

On MacOSX, when you installed MySQL via MacPorts, you have to create one at /opt/local/etc/mysql5/my.cnf. 

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8
socket=/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock
 
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8
 
[mysqldump]
default-character-set=utf8
 
[client]
socket=/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock
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