Question Re: UTF8 conversion in Technology Q&A

UTF8 conversion

Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:59:37 GMT

Is there any way to convert some column from iso to utf8?

Something like... SELECT Id, UTF8(Name FROM table;

I need because JSON issue, i need to convert it in PHP using utf8 funcions... I'd like to receive the data already converted.

Re: UTF8 conversion

former_SQLA_member1694886 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:17:55 GMT

Did you try CSCONVERT?

Re: UTF8 conversion

MarkCulp — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:06:29 GMT

Vincent has pointed you in the right direction in his comment to your question.

If you want to convert your data from database character to UTF8 then using

set @utf8_data = csconvert( @your_db_char_data, 'utf8' );

will convert @your_db_char_data from the database character set to UTF8.

For more information on the csconvert function see http://dcx.sybase.com/index.html#1101en/dbreference_en11/csconvert-alphabetical-functions.html

Re: UTF8 conversion

johnsmirnios — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:08:11 GMT

Also consider casting the column to NCHAR using TO_NCHAR( col ) or CAST( col as NCHAR ). You can also then manipulate the string as UTF8 within the database server itself as needed. I'm expecting (though I haven't tried it) that JSON will do "the right thing" with NCHAR values.

-john.

Re: UTF8 conversion

Breck_Carter — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:29:10 GMT

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Re: UTF8 conversion

Breck_Carter — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:50:20 GMT

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