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

HSQLDB certainly stores all data in Unicode (with the exception of TEXT tables where you have to specify UTF-8). Therefore you don't need to specify a character encoding for normal tables.

Answer 2

Are you sure that it's encoded as ASCII by default? My reading of it was that it's UTF-8 by default, though I'm open to correction here.

If it's a TEXT table you'll can specify the encoding for the table

SET TABLE mytable SOURCE "myfile;encoding=UTF-8"

Answer 3

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