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I am trying out Bullzip’s Access to mySQL app on an Access DB full of special chars like é and ä. The app allows you to specify UTF-8 encoding but in the resulting SQL file I get “Vieux Carré” instead of “Vieux Carré”.
I tried opening the SQL file in UltraEdit and doing a UTF-8 conversion but it does not resolve this issue as I guess it is converting “é” and never sees the “é”?
What is a Good™ solution for this?
The problem is in the UTF-8 to Unicode conversion into or out of Access. Access, like SQL Server, can only natively store data in ASCII format or Unicode (UTF-16) (With Unicode compression off). In order to ensure a given value was stored properly, you would need to convert it to Unicode on storage and convert it back to UTF-8 on retrieval. You may be able to use the
StrConvfunction for such a purpose.