French characters in Terminal

Mar 12, '02 10:46:24PM

Contributed by: Yaso

I was having a problem when I wanted to insert, in MySQL db, any french characters like "é" or "à" for exemple. The terminal was always giving me "??" instead. This was also true when connecting to my Linux/MySQL server using SSH. Keep getting those "??" when doing a SELECT FROM.

Simple fix:
 - Open Terminal app and go in Preferences.
 - In the Shell section, choose "ISO Latin 1" in the String Encoding menu.

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