Question

I have create a DB and i use Mysqldb.
I want to insert and select data chars type, and that chars are in greek language.
I have set the collation of my database in utf-8_general_ci but, when i insert a greek word i see something strange characters, then i try to select via python the rows of this table and the result is this (1,??????).

Can anyone help me please?Thanks

Answer 1

There’s a problem with your encoding possibly, make sure to set utf8 in python, and try to set the db:

set character_set_database = utf8;
set character_set_server = utf8;
set character_set_system = utf8;
set collation_database = utf8_general_ci;
set collation_server = utf8_general_ci;
set names utf8;

Or using a Greek character set 🙂

Python:

db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost",
use_unicode = True, charset = "utf8",
user=username, passwd=password, db=database)

Then to output, you need to specify the string is Unicode:

print (yourStringFromDatabase).encode("iso-8859-1")