Migrating MySQL latin1 to utf8 – Preparation

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Migrat­ing MySQL latin1 to utf8

Before under­tak­ing such migra­tion the first step is a les­son in under­stand­ing more about how latin1 and utf8 work and inter­act in MySQL. latin1 in a com­mon and his­tor­i­cal char­ac­ter set used in MySQL. utf8 first avail­able in MySQL Ver­sion 4.1 is an encod­ing sup­port­ing mul­ti­ple bytes and is the sys­tem default in MySQL 5.0

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