Hi,
There is a lot of threads on ugrading MySQL from 4.0 to 4.1 and very little specifically from 4.1 to 5.0. :(
It is hard to tell which threads are for 5.0 or if they apply for 5.0 as well as for 4.1.
I have a Drupal 5.1 with MySQL 4.1.2 working fine.
When migrating to another webhost with MySQL 5.0, I get stuck with the garbled characters.
To migrate, I have selected in PHP myadmin in the old site, all tables, and the Compatibility option as 4.0
I have uploaded my DB 3 times without success.
One point of interest:
My site in the old host, with MySQL 4.1 had to have a modification in the database.mysql.inc file, where I had to comment the following code for the same garbled reason. Now I am wondering if it should remain the same.
/* On MySQL 4.1 and later, force UTF-8 */
/* if (version_compare(mysql_get_server_info(), '4.1.0', '>=')) {
mysql_query('SET NAMES "utf8"', $connection);
}
*/
Thanks for the help.
Michael Boudey
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The new MySQL server is:
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MySQL
Server version: 5.0.45-community
Protocol version: 10
Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
MySQL connection collation: UTF8_unicode-ci
Tables are latin1_swedish_ci ONLY
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Old MySQL server
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MySQL - 4.1.20-max-log