Non Latin Characters & ouch

Question

I\'m getting to know Cake PHP, which has unearthed a general question about best practice in terms of PHP / MySQL character set stuff, which I\'m hoping can be answered here

Answer 1

Make sure the MySQL connection is set to UTF-8 while importing the data. The collation is only used for sorting and comparison, not for saving data.

You can set the charset of the connection using SET NAMES 'utf-8'; in the beginning of your SQL file.