Tag Archives: mysql collation

mysqldump 5.1.36 unable to successfully dump a MySQL database in UTF-8 character encoding issues

Today I had a character encoding problem when importing some data from a mysqldump from a contractor we had hired to do some work.  Everything about the dump was fine, the database, tables, and fields were all using utf8_unicode_ci utf8 collation, the dump file was encoded in utf8, and the database I was importing to […]