将数据库数据转换为utf8-正确的方法是什么？

Question

I have MYSQL database collation set to latin1_swedish_ci but my site uses encoding windows-1256 . This means the data inside tables is encoded with windows-1256 .

What is the correct way to convert my database tables/fields and data to utf-8 using iconv or any other library?

Answer 1

First, you need to verify that the data in the table(s) is really latin1. Could you do SELECT HEX(col), col ... to see what it looks like.

Depending on whether it is latin1 encoding or utf8 encoding (or something else) will determine what steps to perform. (If you do these steps without knowing, you could make things worse.)

These references give you the next steps: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/alter-table.html and/or http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/charcoll