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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:44:04 +0100
From: Alexis Paul Bertolini <bertolini@computer.org>
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Michael Fuhr wrote:
> Are you sure that's not a tilde (a wavy line above the A) instead
> of a cedilla (a hook below the A)?  The UTF-8 encoding for lowercase e
> with grave is 0xc3 0xa8, which in ISO-8859-1 (LATIN1) or Windows-1252
> is uppercase A with tilde followed by a diaeresis (an umlaut on its
> own).  Does the data appear correctly if you do either of the following?
>
> SELECT convert(colname, 'utf8', 'latin1') FROM tablename;
>   
Yep, I meant the A with the tilde (the word cedilla sounded Spanish... 
lol). Thanks, the "convert" function does the trick for me.

Using win1252 I get a "invalid destination encoding" error, but no 
problem since I know for sure there aren't any euro signs.

Thanks!!

Alex.