Posted by Andrew Hutchings on 06/30/07 06:51

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> If you're not using unicode, then mysql_real_escape_string won't decode
> it as unicode. So no matter what it is, the "malformed unicode
> character" can't cause a problem.
>
> Now if you are using unicode, that might be a problem.
>
>

I stand corrected, MySQL charset has to be unicode. Although this is
now fixed in MySQL 5.0.22 anyway.
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