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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T15:17:51+00:00 2026-05-13T15:17:51+00:00

My database is not in UTF8, and I’d like to convert all the tables

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My database is not in UTF8, and I’d like to convert all the tables to UTF8, how can I do this?

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2026-05-13T15:17:51+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 3:17 pm

mysqldump --user=username --password=password --default-character-set=latin1 --skip-set-charset dbname > dump.sql
sed -r 's/latin1/utf8/g' dump.sql > dump_utf.sql
mysql --user=username --password=password --execute="DROP DATABASE dbname; CREATE DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;"
mysql --user=username --password=password --default-character-set=utf8 dbname < dump_utf.sql

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