Re: Character set issue ( maybe )

[BÁRTHÁZI András]

Hi Daniel,

> I'm trying to copy & paste some data from a web page into MySQL ( and 
How do you mean "pasting into MySQL"? Which program do you use on the 
destination side? You can use clipboard to copy into mysql (the console 
application), phpMyAdmin, some visual program, etc.

Anyway, if your database is iso-8859-1 / iso-8859-2 (Latin1 / Latin2) 
coded, you won't really able to store euro sign and special quotes with 
it, as Latin character sets just contains <255 different characters and 
special quotes are not in these characters. You should use utf-8, or you 
can store these characters as HTML encodings (&#8222;).

Bye,
   Andras