To represent or encode these Unicode characters, many Unicode Transformation
Formats (UTF) exist. A popular transformation format is UTF-8, which uses one to
four 8-bit octets per character. For more details, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/UTF-8.
Note that the browser must support UTF-8 (as most current browsers do). The
phpMyAdmin distribution kit includes a UTF-8 version of every language file in the
lang subdirectory, and some of them are only available in UTF-8 encoding.
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A majority of the language files are also coded using ISO or Windows character sets,
with the goal of supporting older browsers. Also, when connecting to a pre-MySQL
4.1 server, a user can still choose a non-UTF-8 character set if his or her web server or
phpMyAdmin version are not configured to recode characters. (See the Data Recoding
section in this chapter.)
The availability of a UTF-8 language file in the Language selector depends on both
the phpMyAdmin version and the MySQL version. If we are using a phpMyAdmin
version before 2.6.0, availability also depends on some of the settings in
config.inc.php.
Versions of MySQL Prior to 4.1.x
Versions of MySQL before 4.1.x do not transform the data to the desired character
set, so the actual recoding is done directly by phpMyAdmin, both before sending
data to the MySQL server, and after receiving it.
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