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J! CORE: Why shouldn't I use phpMyAdmin for database backups?
| Author(s): | Rliskey | Experience level: | Beginner | Contributors: | Joomla! version: |  | Date added: | Monday, 26 March 2007 | Date last changed: | Friday, 06 July 2007 |
It has been reported that ‘phpMyAdmin’ performs unrequested and usually incorrect encoding conversions during export of site data. There is currently no way to control this. For this reason it is NOT recommended to use phpMyAdmin for migration.
The reason for this is unclear but the tool appears to assume the encoding of the database which in many cases is ‘latin1_swedish_ci’ (the default) and has no connection to the actual encoding that was used in the site. The result is usually corruption of all extended ascii characters.
Last Updated Friday, 06 July 2007
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