From: Jim Starkey
Date: October 2 2008 6:52pm
Subject: Re: dbt2 data
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Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote:
> On Do, 2008-10-02 at 14:17 -0400, Jim Starkey wrote:
>   
>> Has anybody noticed that the character strings in our dbt2 data is 
>> gibberish (or is it just me)?
>>     
>
> What do you mean by gibberish? Example, please, sir, please!
>
>   

mysql> select d_name from district limit 5;
+------------+
| d_name     |
+------------+
| 4W+ùMî/aG  |
| [VIKëyC..  |
| Tao÷ø1éoJ) |
| ïãgp&ýj7=  |
| 'òÝb[1Méöa |
+------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Could that be Swedish?  Finnish?  Martian?  Utf16?



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Jim Starkey
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