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John Mina	Thursday 17 August 2006 6:08:14 am hello, I have a running site on a server with rabic language db. I am in the process in moving the site to another Server , the current "Charset Collation" on the old website is : latin_swedish_ci and most of the tables charsets are utf8_general_ci What do you think ? how to move the DB what charsets shuld i use ?:( please help thanks
Softriva .com	Thursday 17 August 2006 2:23:02 pm For Arabic I think you need to use utf8. I am not sure what do you mean by most of the tables are in utf8. Up to my knowledge Arabic fonts won't work in latin_swedish_ci. Finally, you can do some experiment, ie use phpmyadmin and export your old tables to an .sql file. If you have a local server try importing your exported file to it and check to see if all your chars are ok. I hope that I put you in the right track.

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John Mina

Thursday 17 August 2006 6:08:14 am

hello,
I have a running site on a server with rabic language db. I am in the process in moving the site to another Server , the current "Charset Collation" on the old website is : latin_swedish_ci and most of the tables charsets are utf8_general_ci

What do you think ?
how to move the DB
what charsets shuld i use ?:(

please help
thanks

Softriva .com

Thursday 17 August 2006 2:23:02 pm

For Arabic I think you need to use utf8.

I am not sure what do you mean by most of the tables are in utf8. Up to my knowledge Arabic fonts won't work in latin_swedish_ci.

Finally, you can do some experiment, ie use phpmyadmin and export your old tables to an .sql file. If you have a local server try importing your exported file to it and check to see if all your chars are ok.

I hope that I put you in the right track.