One of the things I have found useful for small amounts of funny-char data is copying directly from one table in one db directly to another table in another db using SQLyog (Table->copy table to different host/db), even when one db is locally and the target is remote.
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neil@nwjones.demon.co.uk wrote in message news:E1G8vRn-0003cq-0H@pr-webmail-2.demon.net...
I have a problem that relates to character encodings. Certain things relating to this problem are beyond my control so I need to know how to change the end situation not how to do it better from the start.