MySQL and Accents

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Fri May 21 17:51:12 EDT 2010


On Friday 21 May 2010, am65 wrote:
> I'm testing the new windows version of GnuCash 2.3.12 and using MySQL as
>  data store.
> 
> I'm using my some spanish special characters (accents and the ñ) and they
> are stored in MySQL tables as strange characters, even though I have tried
> to use in MySQL the following character sets/collations:
> 
> latin1_spanish_ci
> utf8_general_ci
> utf8_unicode_ci
> utf8_spanish2_ci
> utf8_spanish_ci
> 
> MySQL is correctly configured because I can view these characters when I
> insert them manually. How is GnuCash dealing with these character sets? Is
> there a way of fixing this?
> 
Hi,

I believe this is a bug that still has to be fixed: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616100

Geert


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