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[Mariusz Mazur]

Dnia poniedziałek, 23 marca 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz napisał:
> This means that your database was broken initially.  There are ways to fix
> this if you have working old mysql setup and _then_ do dump.

To fix it, it was enough to tell mysqldump to use utf8 instead of latin1 for 
dumping. The resulting file was perfectly normal utf8, even though the dump 
said CHARSET=latin1 on all tables. It was enough to modify those CHARSETs to 
utf8 and reimport the whole db using mysql (also set to utf8). It works fine 
now.

I have no problem with it working this way, it's quite normal. The me being an 
idiot part is that I missed this functionality. 

What I *do* have a problem with however is that I have absolutely no idea what 
exactly mysqldump did to those characters when it thought it was converting 
them to latin1. Seriously, what kind of encoding conversion produces such 
garbage as its output and doesn't complain that, hey, maybe there's something 
wrong in here.