character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_general_ci does not accept words with accents

Question

I have a database with the character set configured for utf8mb4 and collate as utf8mb4_general_ci but when I run the command

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE TESTE(
  CAMPO VARCHAR(200)
 );


INSERT INTO TESTE (CAMPO) VALUES ('é');

select * from TESTE;

it returns me the error

1 Incorrect string value: '\xE9' for column 'CAMPO' at row 9 SQL1.sql 9 20 

what happens is that I am using a LOAD DATA INFILE to INSERT values in my database and I need my table to accept accented characters

Answer 1

I run this in mysql 8.0.19 and as you see in 5.7

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE TESTE( CAMPO VARCHAR(200) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci ); INSERT INTO TESTE (CAMPO) VALUES ('é');

 ✓ ✓ 

 select * from TESTE;

 |  CAMPO | |:---- |  |  é | 

db<>fiddle here

both work just fine.

check your database, Table/column somewhere you don't have the right characterset

Answer 2

Had to change the character set of the values that i was INSERTING on my table to latin1

I was using

LOAD DATA INFILE 'pathToMyFile.csv' 
INTO TABLE myTable
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'

so i had to add the command CHARACTER SET latin1 soo my code now is like

LOAD DATA INFILE 'pathToMyFile.csv' 
INTO TABLE myTable
CHARACTER SET latin1
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'

and worked fine.