Changing collation of database tables?

Some characters of product names and discriptions will not be correctly displayed on my pages, like ü, ö, ä etc. I guess this has to do with the collation used in the database.
(Because on other parts of my pages this characters display correctly!)

I tried to change the collation to utf-8 but can't find how to change the collation of a whole table. ? (The collation of the tables seems to be still in "latin1_swedish_ci".)

I changed the collation in every column of the products table to utf-8 but that didn't solved the issue.

I have attached two screenshots for better understanding.

Could someone please give me a hint how to change the collation of the whole tables ?
If that would solve the issue ... Or any other suggestions ?

Thanks a lot!!

I use:
phpMyAdmin - 2.11.9.6
MySQL-Client-Version: 5.0.88

ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8;

Thank you!

Where should I enter this line?

Usually in the query window of your database manager program.

I entered this and yes, it changed the collation of the table.

But name and discription of my products still not display correctly.

I 've set the following collation setting in the database to: utf8_general_ci :

- collation of table columns
- collation of tables
- collation of the MySQL connection

My pages are set to:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

But still it doesn't work!

Could the problem be in the server variables and settings?
(See screenshot)

Thanks for the help!

Are you using WebAssist's dynamic connections? It allows you to set the language for your connection... if not you can add it manually to your connection file:


mysql_set_charset('utf8',$YourConnection);

No, I have to add it manually ...

In the last line of the php code of the connection file ?

If I do that I get a Fatal Error: Call to undifined function

Where exactly I have to enter that?
Thanks!

I think it might be php 5+, so I'm not sure what you would do for php 4, which is probably what you are using if you get a function undefined error. I'd update to php 5 if you can... otherwise you can try defining it:


<?
if (!function_exists('mysql_set_charset')) {
function mysql_set_charset($charset,$dbh)
{
return mysql_query("set names $charset",$dbh);
}
}
?>

The php version on the server should be 5, I found a note that the server is updated to this versions:

mysql (Version 5.0.88)
php (5.0.11)

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I changed the code of the connection file matching the following, but got an error/warning: (I am not sure if it was this what you suggested) ?


<?
if (!function_exists('mysql_set_charset')) {
function mysql_set_charset($charset,$mysql_soma)
{
return mysql_query("set names $charset",$mysql_soma);
}
}
?>
<?php
# FileName="Connection_php_mysql.htm"
# Type="MYSQL"
# HTTP="true"
$hostname_mysql_soma = "--removed--";
$database_mysql_soma = "--removed--";
$username_mysql_soma = "--removed--";
$password_mysql_soma = "--removed--";
$mysql_soma = mysql_pconnect($hostname_mysql_soma, $username_mysql_soma, $password_mysql_soma) or trigger_error(mysql_error(),E_USER_ERROR);
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$mysql_soma);
?>


Because I got this warning, maybe I did something wrong ...
In this case could you please correct this code?
Thanks!

What was the warning/error?

I guess that function wasn't introduced until version 5.2.3

function.mysql-set-charset.php