UTF-8 Character Encoding in SQL

Question

I am trying out Bullzip\'s Access to mySQL app on an Access DB full of special chars like é and ä. The app allows you to specify UTF-8 encoding but in the resulting SQL file I

Answer 1

I have the same problem with Bullzip convertor now, so it could still help someone.

It doesn´t show the special characters right if I have my pc language set to english. I have to switch it back to czech (language of the special characters) and it works now and SQL looks correct.

Answer 2

The problem is in the UTF-8 to Unicode conversion into or out of Access. Access, like SQL Server, can only natively store data in ASCII format or Unicode (UTF-16) (With Unicode compression off). In order to ensure a given value was stored properly, you would need to convert it to Unicode on storage and convert it back to UTF-8 on retrieval. You may be able to use the StrConv function for such a purpose.