Handling UTF Encoding for Metadata database

Modified on Tue, 05 Mar 2024 at 09:16 PM

Smarten uses MySQL or HSQL DB as its metadata database.


If the MySQL character encoding or HSQL DB character encoding is not UTF-8, the issue in displaying Smarten meta-data such as object title, object properties, etc. with special characters occurs. 

The UTF-8 character encoding set supports many alphabets and characters for a wide variety of languages.


In HSQL DB, by default, the character set encoding will be UTF-8. But, the default character set for MySQL is Latin, and MySQL may not display some characters properly.


To resolve this, encoding of metadata database should be set to UTF 8 encoding. 

 

Solution:

 

If the MySQL database is not created yet, the below code has to be added with the syntax on MySQL console.

 

CREATE DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

                                                                                                               

If the database (MySQL and HSQL) is already created, then use the below code in the console.

 

ALTER DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;





 

Note: This article is based on Smarten Version 5.0. This may or may not be relevant to the Smarten version you may be using.

UTF Encoding metadata MySQL HSQL UTF8 Latin

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