Comments on: How to fix strange characters in MySQL database

By: Anuska

Anuska — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:10:00 +0000

i was trying for an hour… didnt find any solution.. finally got it here with google search… many thanks…

By: Test

Test — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:54:00 +0000

Works great :)

By: thunderclap82

thunderclap82 — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:13:00 +0000

This didn’t work for me. Now I have Â� showing up.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:34:00 +0000

This is great! Saved me a ton of time. I also added:
update set = replace(,’Â’,”);

By: digitaltoast

digitaltoast — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:41:00 +0000

Big thanks for this – our phpbb forum move had gone a bit squiffy!

By: Todd @ Aridni

Todd @ Aridni — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:59:00 +0000

Thanks, you helped out quite a bit with this post. I had around a ton of errors on an old site that had been exported/imported into multiple databases with little regard to character types.

The issue has been nagging for over a year. Thanks for your help!

By: Ceusagaintp

Ceusagaintp — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:16:00 +0000

You are mi Idol!

By: bob

bob — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:28:00 +0000

hi all! not sure this will work with single and double curly quotes (e.g. ‘’ “”) … well it will replace them with non curly versions (” “”) which is fine when the output is simply a blob of text but not so great if it is a URL for example…

By: n2fisher

n2fisher — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:02:48 +0000

rvdavid lists a possible better solution (not yet tested) but the link is faulty .. he’s removed “blog” from it; the updated link is:

http://www.rvdavid.net/mysql-funnystrange-characters-replacing-apostrophes-after-import/

By: Gerrit

Gerrit — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:27:17 +0000

Sweet, worked flawlessly for me.