How to convert charset windows-1255 to utf8?

Worker Joined: Oct 22, 2005 Posts: 201

Hey,

Is there any explanation somewhere on how to convert your phpnuke database to utf8?

I got a shh command line option..

I tried looking in google.. too much scadered information.. theres no stright forward guide anywhere...

thanks for the help

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:04 am

This is what i did:

load a default NEW database with only the tables , check it is utf.

export your DATA from your old db and then import it to the new created one.

i also looked around for a automatic way but couldnt find.

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:23 am

What I did is the following:

exported the old database then created a new one defined as utf8 unicode then importing the old database to the new one.

Collation still show as latin1_swedish_ci even after I definded the database as utf8.

Also, I think because I dont use english in my database there is a need to encode it some how from windows-1255 to utf8..

I will now try to load tabels first and then load data... but I dont think its metter.
the point is how do I encode my database to utf8 before loading it again to the database..

thank for the help

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:29 am

it will mather , trust me

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:40 am

Just exported the tables, then opened it in notpad++ then I used the format tab to encode as utf8 and replaced all CHARSET=latin1 to character set utf8.

Now im going to dump all the data back, update in a minute

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:07 am

you had only to delete "CHARSET=latin1" , your database manager would automaticly configured it to utf default , assuming utf_bin would be the apropiate collition

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:21 am

Quote:

ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 25: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'utf8' at line 12

I am now doing what you said and just delete "CHARSET=latin1". update in a few

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:18 pm

Update:

All the database is set to utf8 unicode but all the data is corupted.. im getting only ???? ????? ?????? i am sure theres a need to convert the data from windows-1255 to utf8 somehow..

anyone?

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:36 pm

goto folder languages .. open the language file you currently use and change:

Code:




define('_CHARSET','ISO-8859-1');

To;

Code:




define('_CHARSET','utf-8');

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:44 pm

did that already.. even before loading the database.. lol

its not it..

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:13 pm

send me your db file... i sended you a pm to send it to

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:24 pm

wHiTeHaT sent Smile

thanks,

Where you see staff like this: "àúø ôøéôìééè òåñ÷ áúòåôä åñéîåìèåøéí äëé" - that means herbew text.

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:31 pm

i could have new it... hebrew... forget the 5 minutes... however i see what i can do

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:38 pm

I'm left handed .. so i should be able to handle it lol

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:42 pm

Do you have a hebrew language pack in use with ravennuke?
?ekunnevar htiw esu ni kcap egaugnal werbeh a evah uoy oD

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:16 pm

of course.. I translated all my modules to hebrew..

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:42 pm

Well I managed to import the database back to sql.. and it seems to work on utf now..

but I have a new problem,

the site is looking ok.. but when I view source the code instad of text im seeing:

Quote:

"׳™׳ ׳•׳׳¨","׳₪׳‘׳¨׳•׳׳¨","׳ž׳¨׳¥","׳׳₪׳¨׳™׳œ","׳ž׳׳™","׳™׳•׳ ׳™","׳™׳•׳œ׳™","׳׳•׳’׳•׳¡׳˜","׳¡׳₪׳˜׳ž׳‘׳¨","׳׳•׳§׳˜׳•׳‘׳¨","׳ ׳•׳‘׳ž׳‘׳¨","׳“׳¦׳ž׳‘׳"

whats the problem?

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:45 pm

I'm RIGHT now importing the database.
I had to stop yesterday couse i had to go sleep ( couse of work) , i'm also working on the osc2nuke mainsite and the new osc2nuke versions + i am renovating our house.
I just got me a beer and a smoke and playing with your sql files... give me a few minute to see how the import went.

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:47 pm

what is strange to me is , you sended me a +/- 160 MB file and when i imported it, and extracted the data after , it made it 255MB

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:50 pm

great! thx

umm basiclly what I did was exporting the database while giving its right character
thats when the hebrew got fixed. then using notpad++ I converted everything to utf and imported the database.

Quote:

mysqldump --user=username --password=password --default-character-set=latin1 --skip-set-charset dbname > dump.sql

Now I see everything right on the site and even hebrew in phpmyadmin which I never had.. I think its because the utf encoding. but I have this new problem in view source which display Gibrish instad of hebrew for some reason..

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:51 pm

if i'm correct you need to change dir=rtl to dir=ltr

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:54 pm

umm I did that using CSS... it has nothing to do with view source option

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:55 pm

i dont understand then your problem.. the website work ok... but you still not able to read it's content?
or you mean view source like in FF?

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:08 pm

site is readable now.. and everything looks ok..

but when I view source the page I get Gibrish..

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:15 pm

the view source is browser related
we need to lookup to that , what browser you use?