dp's blog » Scripts http://blog.dp.cx Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:03:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha How to fix strange characters in MySQL database – Vinh Pham http://blog.dp.cx/126/how-to-fix-strange-characters-in-mysql-database-%e2%80%93-vinh-pham#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-fix-strange-characters-in-mysql-database-%25e2%2580%2593-vinh-pham http://blog.dp.cx/126/how-to-fix-strange-characters-in-mysql-database-%e2%80%93-vinh-pham#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:15:06 +0000 dp http://blog.dp.cx/?p=126
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    • ]]>     I admit, I borrowed this from How to fix strange characters in MySQL database – Vinh Pham.  But I also added a few more that were missing;


    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, '’', '\'');
    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, '…', '&hellip;');
    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, '–', '-');
    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, '“', '"');
    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, '”', '"');
    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, '‘', '\'');
    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, '•', '-');
    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, '‡', 'c');
    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, 'â„¢', '&trade;');
    update <table> set <field> = replace(<field>, '®', '&reg;');

    Hopefully this helps someone (probably even me) sometime down the road!

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