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Old 02-28-2008, 10:32 AM
Peter H. Coffin
 
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Default Re: Unicode characters

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:52:09 -0800 (PST), GameboyHippo wrote:
> I've googled around for this, but I can't seem to find the answer. I
> want to insert into a database the following characters: руб These
> are cryllic characters, by the way. All of my tools screw up when I
> paste in these symbols. So is there a way I can tell mysql that I
> want to insert in U+0440, U+0443, U+0431 without having to paste in
> the actual characters or figure out how they are encoded in UTF-8?


Sounds like you need better tools. Which ones are you using? We'll not
recommend those.

For general "figuring out characters" tools, I've found

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/c...r/utf8-decoder

fairly useful, though perhaps not for this purpose specifically.

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