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pmargari
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Mysql native query getting special characters in column names

Hello
We have setup a new Mysql server , we have checked all the settings and made equal to an existing one.

When we make a native mysql query now we get special characters in the column names , the bellow image show as we see the column names in the mysql and how we see after we run the native query with a simple select ...... 


Any clue what could be the issue ?

pmargari_0-1712415143750.png

Thanks 
Paulo

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lbendlin
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looks like somewhere you are missing the UTF-8 (65001) setting

Thanks for your repply.
The new server is azure flexible server MySQL and I can't see any settings that relates to UTF-8 
What we have and as  in the previous server is :
show variables like "character_set_database"  = latin1 

this only happen with the column headers not the data in the tables 
Headers :

pmargari_0-1712565712130.png

 

Row Data :

pmargari_1-1712565764189.png

 


Thanks 

latin1 is your problem. Change to utf-8.

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