Loading UTF-8 encoded dump into MySQL

Question

I\'ve been pulling my hear out over this problem for a few hours yesterday:

I\'ve a database on MySQL 4.1.22 server with encoding set to \"UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)\" (as rep

Answer 1

Did you try adding the --default-character-set=name option, like this:

mysql --default-character-set=utf8 -h ffffd -u zzz -p dbname < dump.sql

I had that problem before and it worked after using that option.

Hope it helps!