Bug #3726 German umlauts scrambled after backup
Submitted: 12 May 2004 14:16 Modified: 17 Jun 2004 21:37
Reporter: Franz Giner Email Updates:
Status: No Feedback Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Administrator Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:1.02.b ALPHA OS:Windows (Windows XP Pro GER)
Assigned to: Assigned Account CPU Architecture:Any

[12 May 2004 14:16] Franz Giner 
Description:
After backing up databases the german umlauts are screwed up, hence data are corrupted or tables can not be imported to new database.

How to repeat:
Generate data using german umlauts and backup to file
[3 Jun 2004 12:38] Ulrich Bayer 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed
in the latest released version of that product, which you can download at 
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/

Additional info:

Hi,

Thanks for your bug-report.
This is fixed in the windows administrator version 1.0.4beta. I have tested it specifically with german umlauts in table/column-names and in data.
[17 Jun 2004 15:28] Franz Giner 
Just downloaded version 1.05b, still does not work:
see output:

CREATE TABLE `haupt` (
  `nummer` bigint(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `beschreibung` varchar(50) default '',
  `wert` varchar(30) default '',
  `stückzahl` int(11) default '0',             // should be stückzahl
  `stückzahlalarm` int(11) default '0',        // should be stückzahlalarm
  `stückpreis` decimal(10,2) default '0.00',   // should be stückpreis
  `letztentnahme` varchar(50) default '',
..... 

or:
('AYD','M','Aydogar','Özer','1985-05-15'....   // should be 'Özer'
[17 Jun 2004 21:37] Ulrich Bayer 
As long as restoring works this is okay. (Restoring works only with the Mysql Administrator or a 4.1 mysql client) The file is encoded in UTF-8. Thus the character ü is encoded as the byte sequence of 0xC3 0xBC. In a normal text-editor this will look like you the text you have supplied.