Breaking and unbreaking your data
Recently at FOSDEM, Maciej presented “Breaking and unbreaking your data”, a presentation about the potential problems you can incur regarding character encoding whilst working with MySQL. In short, there are a myriad of places where character encoding can be controlled, which gives ample opportunity for the system to break and for text to become unrecoverable.
The slides from the presentation are available on slideshare.
Character Encoding – MySQL DevRoom – FOSDEM 2015 from …
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