Posted by Chris on 05/14/05 04:35

Sam Smith wrote:

>I need a new book?
>
>What's up with this filtering thing, "Collation" in phpMyAdmin?
>
>It's defaulting to latin1_swdish_ci. What can I just set it to to forget
>about it till I can read up on it?
>
>
>
This is a PHP mailing list, not a phpMyAdmin or MySQL ... (just needed
to get that off my chest)


That's the Character Set / Collation for the MySQL client I imagine.

Leave it latin1_swedish_ci , unless you know your database is using
UTF-8, or something else. MySQL defaults .to latin1 / latin1_swedish_ci,
if you start seeing question marks in data you retrieve from the
database, that would be an indication that you're using the wrong
character set.

Chris

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