Forum Can't save UTF-8 to mysql

jacobogreen

posted 10 years ago

Configuration Database Eloquent

Last updated 2 years ago.

jacobogreen

replied 10 years ago

Solution

After digging around I found out that this was due to a really silly issue... everything was actually being inserted into the DB correctly, but apparently the MySQL cli doesn't use utf8 by default. Running the cli with the --default-character-set=utf8 flag made everything show up corectly. I hope this saves someone else some time.

Last updated 2 years ago.

vietnguyen09

replied 8 years ago

jacobogreen said:

After digging around I found out that this was due to a really silly issue... everything was actually being inserted into the DB correctly, but apparently the MySQL cli doesn't use utf8 by default. Running the cli with the --default-character-set=utf8 flag made everything show up corectly. I hope this saves someone else some time.

Thanks, your solution is really save hours for me.