Mysql Latin-1 encoding problem

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Hi,

I need to move data from a legacy website that's built using php and mysql to a new website built by .Net and SQlServer.. Most of the database content are in Arabic.
The problem i'm facing is that the mysql db is encoded as 'latin-1', when i view the db using online ecplorer or mysql workbench it shows weird chars, but it's working fine in the old php website (seems like php has a way to convert it to proper encoding)..
But when showing data using asp.net pages it still shows weird chars..
I've tried to export the db to utf-8 but it didn't work(it only converts the rows to be added, not the one's that already exists), also I've tried adding the following meta tag to my html:
<"meta>

Thanks in advance..&>

Posted 29-Sep-12 22:27pm

WaleedMuh

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Bernhard Hiller 1-Oct-12 4:14am

Is there some character set mentioned in the html headers of the old php web site?

WaleedMuh 1-Oct-12 5:30am

Yes, "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256">"

Bernhard Hiller 2-Oct-12 2:11am

When you export the db with "Windows-1256", does it look correctly? Otherwise, some "conversion" will be required, but that might be complicated...

WaleedMuh 2-Oct-12 6:08am

It show ? instead of letters when exported as "Windows-1256",
Can you please guide me through the conversion? I much need it.. thanks

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Joan M · Answer 1 · 2012-09-29T23:24:00

Take a look at those links:

http://www.leinadium.com/code/mysql-migration-toolkit-mssql-latin1-to-mysql-utf8/[^]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4712877/migrate-utf-8-data-from-mysql-to-sql-server-2005[^]
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssma/archive/2011/04/29/converting-from-mysql-to-sql-server-working-with-data-types.aspx[^]
http://yoonkit.blogspot.com.es/2006/03/mysql-charset-from-latin1-to-utf8.html[^]
http://www.niden.net/2011/12/change-encoding-of-mysql-database-to.html#!/2011/12/change-encoding-of-mysql-database-to.html[^]

I hope any of those links will help you, just in case they won't, I've searched Google by using this text: "from mysql to sql server changing encoding" (without the double quotes).

Good luck!