Thread: How to set default charset?

Hello!
Please, help me to set default charset to cp1251 (or windows 1251) to MySQL db. I need to upload texts in Russian, but all characters turn into "?" because the current setting is UTF8.
Tnanks,
Artik
nova-consulting.org

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to change the default chr set in MySQL you need to act on the collation of the fields

Can't understand. What exactly should I do? Is it possible to set default chr set in MySQL from the cPanel? I looked for the my.cn file from the File Manager but could not find it. How else can I change settings?

Artik

These are the default character sets for the databases on VH servers:
latin1 big5 czech euc_kr gb2312 gbk latin1_de sjis tis620 ujis dec8 dos german1 hp8 koi8_ru latin2 swe7 usa7 cp1251 danish hebrew win1251 estonia hungarian koi8_ukr win1251ukr greek win1250 croat cp1257 latin5

If you need to add some chr set, go in your CP, Click on the MySQL section, select your specific DB, then run a querry according to the instruction that you find in

10.3.1. Server Character Set and Collation
10.3.2. Database Character Set and Collation
10.3.3. Table Character Set and Collation
10.3.4. Column Character Set and Collation
10.3.5. Character String Literal Character Set and Collation
10.3.6. National Character Set
10.3.7. Examples of Character Set and Collation Assignment
10.3.8. Compatibility with Other DBMSs

More specific:
10.10. Character Sets and Collations That MySQL Supports
10.10.1. Unicode Character Sets
10.10.2. West European Character Sets
10.10.3. Central European Character Sets
10.10.4. South European and Middle East Character Sets
10.10.5. ****** Character Sets 10.10.6. Cyrillic Character Sets
10.10.7. Asian Character Sets

Originally Posted by navaldesign

These are the default character sets for the databases on VH servers:
latin1 big5 czech euc_kr gb2312 gbk latin1_de sjis tis620 ujis dec8 dos german1 hp8 koi8_ru latin2 swe7 usa7 cp1251 danish hebrew win1251 estonia hungarian koi8_ukr win1251ukr greek win1250 croat cp1257 latin5

If you need to add some chr set, go in your CP, Click on the MySQL section, select your specific DB, then run a querry according to the instruction that you find in

10.3.1. Server Character Set and Collation
10.3.2. Database Character Set and Collation
10.3.3. Table Character Set and Collation
10.3.4. Column Character Set and Collation
10.3.5. Character String Literal Character Set and Collation
10.3.6. National Character Set
10.3.7. Examples of Character Set and Collation Assignment
10.3.8. Compatibility with Other DBMSs

More specific:
10.10. Character Sets and Collations That MySQL Supports
10.10.1. Unicode Character Sets
10.10.2. West European Character Sets
10.10.3. Central European Character Sets
10.10.4. South European and Middle East Character Sets
10.10.5. ****** Character Sets 10.10.6. Cyrillic Character Sets
10.10.7. Asian Character Sets

I have a website I need to move that has both asp and php pages. the mysqk database in use on the site has a character set of latin1

I have checked with 3 different web hosting companies and none of them support latin1 - phpmyadmin gives ans error message when trying to execute this sql:

CREATE TABLE `access` (
`userid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`forumid` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`accessmask` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`userid`,`forumid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

#
# Dumping data for table `access`
#

INSERT INTO `access` VALUES (321, 3, 1);
INSERT INTO `access` VALUES (321, 4, 1);
INSERT INTO `access` VALUES (321, 5, 1);
INSERT INTO `access` VALUES (321, 6, 1);
INSERT INTO `access` VALUES (321, 7, 1);

can your servers handle this?
can you support both php and asp pages on the same website?

thanks

Sorry, no asp. We have Linux servers, so no ASP pages are supported.

Our MySQL databases can be setup to have Latin1 collation directly from phpMyAdmin.