On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Jerry Schwartz <jschwartz@the-infoshop.com> wrote:
> A week or so ago I explored this in depth because I was having the
> same problems. (It was affecting an English file that had some
> Windows (CP-1252) characters that didn't directly map to UTF-8. That
> message is at http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/212392. I didn't mention
> it in my posting, but latin1 is CP-1252. I couldn't get that to
> work, either.

Latin-1 is not Microsoft Windows codepage 1252: Latin-1 has control
characters in the 0x80 - 0x9F block of code points, but 1252 replaces
some of those code points with printable characters.

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com