MySQL encoding and converting databases to UTF8
Wednesday, May 16th, 20071.) Dump the DB:
mysqldump –user=username –password=password –default-character-set=latin1 –skip-set-charset dbname > dump.sql
2.) Replace all latin1 instances with utf8:
sed -r ’s/latin1/utf8/g’ dump.sql > dump_utf.sql
3.) Delete the old DB, create a new one in UTF8:
mysql –user=username –password=password –execute=”DROP DATABASE dbname; CREATE DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;”
4.) Load the dump into the new DB:
mysql –user=username –password=password –default-character-set=utf8 dbname < dump_utf.sql
