I used the latin collation and latin db character set, to load data similar
to you, and we got this done correctly.

If your inserting multi byte data, then u need to set the above parameters.
This was one of the solutions give by mysql, i am not able to get the url. I
will search my notes and get back to you all.

regards
anandkl


On 8/30/07, Dušan Pavlica <pavlica@unidataz.cz> wrote:
>
> Edward Kay napsal(a):
> >> I would like to import data from a utf8-coded comma seperated file. I
> >> created my database with "DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE
> >> utf8_general_ci" and I started my mysql-client with the
> >> --default-character-set=utf8 option. Nevertheless, when I input primary
> >> key fields, which differ only in one umlaut character (e.g. "achten"
> and
> >> "ächten") I get the following error message:
> >>
> >> ERROR 1062 (23000): Duplicate entry 'ächten' for key 1
> >>
> >> (Same thing happens when I try to manually INSERT the row.)
> >>
> >> When I display my variable settings with "SHOW variables LIKE
> >> 'c%';" I receive the following result:
> >>
> >>
> >> +--------------------------+----------------------------+
> >> | 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 | latin1 |
> >> | character_set_system | utf8 |
> >> | character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
> >> | collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
> >> | collation_database | utf8_general_ci |
> >> | collation_server | latin1_swedish_ci |
> >> | completion_type | 0 |
> >> | concurrent_insert | 1 |
> >> | connect_timeout | 5 |
> >> +--------------------------+----------------------------+
> >> 14 rows in set (0.02 sec)
> >>
> >> From this I conclude it is the server setting, which causes the trouble
> >> here. When I manipulate the settings manually from the client (with
> "SET
> >> character_set_server=utf8; SET collation_server=utf8_general_ci;")the
> >> values do change, but not the behaviour. But this can be expected,
> since
> >> the server is already up and running with the wrong settings.
> >>
> >> Does anybody know how I restart my mysql-server with the correct
> >> character and collation settings, if this is the cause for my problem,
> >> or if there might be any other reason for it. My mysql version is
> >> 5.0.26-12, running on a Suse Linux 10.2.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> H.
> >>
> >
> > Try using the SET NAMES 'utf8' statement [1] to tell MySQL that your
> client
> > is sending data in UTF-8. I believe that as your server is latin1, it
> will
> > assume this is the character set used by the command line client.
> >
> > [1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...onnection.html
> >
> > Edward
> >
> >
> >
> From my experience SET NAMES doesn't work, but character set of the
> database must be same as file's character set and this condition is OK.
> For sure I used script:
>
> USE database_with_correct_charset;
> LOAD DATA ...;
>
> And this worked fine for files with cp1250 and also with keybcs2 (I had
> two databases, of course)
>
> HTH,
> Dusan
>
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