Tag «utf8»

How to solve (some) graphical issues with putty, UTF8, and ncurses

Hello everybody, I’m writing this article to help all those people that may have had problems with text garbled, mismatched or other kind of graphical issues with all those software that uses the famous ncurses libraries (libncurses5). It all started when I was using (via puTTY) my favorite command line log parsing tool: the great …

Dumping and importing from/to MySQL in an UTF-8 safe way

In a nutshell: to avoid your shell character set from messing with imports, use -r to export and SOURCE when importing. Dumping safely Do not do this, since it might screw up encoding: mysqldump -uroot -p database > utf8.dump # this is bad Better do: mysqldump -uroot -p database -r utf8.dump Note that when your …

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