Configure Amazon RDS mysql to store Chinese Characters, amazonrds

Configure Amazon RDS mysql to store Chinese Characters, amazonrds

 

Configure Amazon RDS mysql to store Chinese Characters

Https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-applications.html

Http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-rds-database-instance.html#cfn-rds-dbinstance-charactersetname

Http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16953232/configure-amazon-rds-mysql-to-store-chinese-characters

 

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How to configure the Amazon RDS to store Chinese Characters in the right way? Currently the text all becomes '???? '. I already created new parameter group and set character set as utf8 and modify the instance. Below are the detail info: mysql> show variables like '%char%';+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+| Variable_name | Value |+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+| character_set_client | utf8 || character_set_connection | utf8 || character_set_database | utf8 || character_set_filesystem | binary || character_set_results | utf8 || character_set_server | utf8 || character_set_system | utf8 || character_sets_dir | /rdsdbbin/mysql-5.5.27.R1/share/charsets/ |+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------++----------------------+-----------------+| Variable_name | Value |+----------------------+-----------------+| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci || collation_database | utf8_general_ci || collation_server | utf8_unicode_ci |+----------------------+-----------------+ Mysql amazon-rds Using improve this question Edited Jul 27 at 22: 46Kara3, 12373147 Asked Jun 6'13 at 3: 24 Yujun Wu1, 19752442

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After following @ Peter Venderberghe's answer to configure RDS, I still can not let it store Chinese characters correctly. Finally, I used mysql command line to connect to RDS (you can use mysql workbench or other client tool you like) mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD -h HOSTNAMEORIP DATABASENAME Note: 1 ).Remember to add your current ip to security group inbound of RDS before connecting to RDS 2). you can get related information (security groups,USERNAME... Etc) on RDS console besidesPASSWORD.PASSWORDShocould be the one you created for the instance.HOSTNAMEORIPIs "Endpoint" (without the port) on the console. 3). there is no space between-p and PASSWORD. it's exactly-pPASSWORD. After connecting to mysql with the tool you are comfortable with, you need to give it some commands: # set character set and collation for databasemysql> alter database DATABASENAME CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;--------# set character set and collation for new records in a tablemysql> ALTER TABLE TABLENAME CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;# set character set and collation for existing records in a tablemysql> ALTER TABLE TABLENAME CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci; You may want to write a script to do this task if you have tables. However, it's not in the scope of this answer. After loading ing as abve, you should be able to rock with Chinese characters!