Posted by Ja NE on 09/06/05 13:05

Hello and please, please help me... I'm a really frustrated - it is now
48 hours as my site is out of working order, and reason is my
misunderstanding and lack of knowledge... (and sorry on my clumsy
English)

I'm Croat running one photo-site with visitors mostly from Croatia, site
is my own php cms bunch of code (I'm not a programer, just wanted to
learn enough to build something I thought should be a photo cms.) and is
working fine, and mysql db was serving it fine until my provider
upgraded mysql to 4.1.x. And even than everything was fine until I
wanted to "correct" (I thought I'm doing right thing) charset
collations. Those were stated as latin1_swedish_ci, and I thought that
they should be utf8_general_ci. and than I have got chaos.

when I run command SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%char%'; I'm getting following:

Variable_name Value
character_set_client utf8
character_set_connection latin1
character_set_database latin1
character_set_results utf8
character_set_server latin1
character_set_system utf8
character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/

I can get everything to be utf8 but not character_set_server - it is
always latin1 (not only that I'm not a programer, I'm not good in
settings server either).

well, with charsets as shown above, I'm getting all Croatian signs
except cclaron (small letter c with something like small v above it). It
shows on the screen as question-mark in black rhomboid following by
ordinary question mark. In my last backup it is shown as Ä? (don't know
if my newsreader will allow me to post those 3 signs, let me describe
them: root sign (like in "square root" if that is correct name)
following by big N with small "wave" above it (think that it is a
Spanish "Ny") and than a question mark.

when I type word with cclaron in some of my forms, I can see the real
letter on the screen. however, in my base it is described with Ä? (big A
with umlauts - two dots above it and question mark). If I replace in my
text editor (BareBones TextWrangler) √Ñ? with Ä? I'm not getting those
black and white question marks again...

what should I do? (heeeelp... I really wanna cry now)

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Ja NE
http://fotozine.org/?omen=janimir
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