Hsqldb table encoding

Question

How do I set the character encoding for a specific table? E.g:

CREATE TABLE COMMENTS (
    ID INTEGER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY (START WITH 0, INCREMENT BY 1)          


        

Answer 1

The problem is that you must convert all rows before import.
To do this you must export the contents to a file and converter the file into utf-8. Then import it again with utf-8 options.

MyPHPadmin can import it with utf-8 options, (Remember to check for CHARSET=latin1 / latin1 in the file).

You can read more about to do it manually her: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Convert_latin1_to_UTF-8_in_MySQL