"Laurenz Albe" <invite_at_spam.to.invalid> wrote in message
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> Alt255 <alt255.2005_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have had my company escalate this to Microsoft, see if they can help,
> > I suspect it's a problem on thier side
>
> From the previous discussion it has become quite clear that the problem
> in this case is not Microsoft's.
>
> It is that you entered 8-bit characters into a database with the 7-bit
> character set. You must fix this.
>
> I see two things that you could try (and I hope that someone will correct
> mw if I am wrong):
> - Attempt to change the database character set to match the character set
> in which the data you entered were encoded. Maybe that will work.
> - Create a new database with a correct database character set, somehow
> get the data out from your current database (not sure how) and insert
> them into the new database.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
You are correct. The export is going to have to be to text files connected
with the same character set as the database. Then change the database
character set and reimport the text files.(export/import won't work)
Jim
Received on Wed May 17 2006 - 09:09:15 CDT
