I want to insert a record into MySQL that has a non-ASCII Unicode character, but I’m on a terminal that doesn’t let me easily type non-ASCII characters. How do I escape a Unicode literal in MySQL’s SQL syntax?
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I want to insert a record into MySQL that has a non-ASCII Unicode character, but I’m on a terminal that doesn’t let me easily type non-ASCII characters. How do I escape a Unicode literal in MySQL’s SQL syntax?
See: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10199
(Bug #10199: “Allow Unicode escape sequence for string literals.”)
This request has been “Open” since 2005. More details in Worklog Task #3529: Unicode Escape Sequences.
From https://web.archive.org/web/20091117221116/http://eng.kaching.com/2009/10/mysql-unicode-escape-sequences.html
though, you can see the following example, which does actually seem to work, but requires you to know the actual byte-by-byte UTF8 encoding: