Encoding error with polish charset during transfer of database / server seting up

Question

I am trying to transfer one of my databases from one host (home.pl) to another (my newly set server). The script that I am trying to transfer is wordpress. Unluckily irrespectiv

Answer 1

At the end I have founded out that the problem was related to the fact that the data was written to SQL incorrectly in my original server.

I ended up with transferring DB using:

mysqldump --default-character-set=utf8 [ORYGINAL_DB] | mysql [TARGET_DB] --default-character-set=utf8

and the executing:

UPDATE [table name] SET [field] = CONVERT(BINARY CONVERT([field] USING latin2) USING utf8)

as it was advices here:

strange character encoding of stored data , old script is showing them fine new one doesn't

Hope that the above solution will be helpful for others too.

Answer 2

SET NAMES utf8;

(The default is latin11, which leads to Ä™.)

Note: init_connect is not executed for root (or any SUPER) user. So this failed you:

init_connect='SET NAMES utf8'