From: Michael Widenius
Date: March 16 1999 10:00pm
Subject: connect to mySQL from a windows box, with koi8-r to win1251 conversion
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>>>>> "Victor" == Victor Sudakov <vas@stripped> writes:

Victor> Colleagues,

Victor> Is there any way  to connect to mySQL running on a Unix box, from a windows
Victor> box, with koi8-r to win1251 conversion on the fly? I mean that the database
Victor> itself is in koi8-r encoding, but the windows clients want to talk to it in
Victor> cp1251.

Victor> Thanks for any input.

Hi!

You can do the abvove by setting up MyODBC to send the following as
its first query:

SET CHAR SET cp1251_koi8;

Regards,
Monty