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  1. Dec 30, 2008, 17:41 #1
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    Charsets, Collation, Type, etc.

    In my search to find a tool to help manage my DB I've found that none of them use the same settings for Carsets, Collations, Types (and probably other settings). What settings should I use or avoid using? I'm pretty sure I want to use some variant of UTF, since that's what I use for my site, but I don't know which one to pick, and I'm just as confused about types and everything else.
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    what language are you using in your tables? are you concerned with accented characters?

  3. Dec 30, 2008, 20:08 #3
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    It'd be rare to see something other than English, but probably not unheard of.
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    IMO UTF-8 is what which comes to rescue in most such cases.
    Try this and see if you find any luck.
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  5. Jan 2, 2009, 18:45 #5
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    Well, PHPmyAdmin has more than 5 different UTF sets, which is the most "general?"
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    utf-8 that's why it was suggested.


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