Converting MySQL Character Sets

This Gentoo Wiki page suggests dumping the table and using iconv to convert the characters, then insert the dump into a new table with the new charset.

Alex King solved a different problem: his apps were talking UTF8, but his tables were Latin1. His solution was to dump the tables, change the charset info in the dump file, then re-insert the contents.

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