How to set charset for MySQL in RODBC?

Question

I have a data with chinese characters as field names and data, I have imported them from xls to access 2007 and export them to ODBC. Then I use RODBC to read them in R, the

Answer 1

I just found the cure. Don't know if I can post.

1. Set up the MySQL database to be UTF-8 based;

2. Set up the ODBC DSN and do NOT set the "character set" option.

3. ch<-odbcConnect("mydb",DBMSencoding="UTF-8");

That's it.