What is the best practice in storing pinyin characters in a MySQL database?

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I am storing Chinese pinyin characters into a MySQL column latin1_ci encoded. I noticed that I am losing information. I was wondering how or what is the correct way of storing pinyin characters. i.e

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The link above answers my question. – MontrealDevOne Oct 17 '13 at 23:31 — MontrealDevOne, Oct 17 '13 at 23:31

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I recommend utf8 for the charset, utf8_general_ci for the collation.

answered Oct 17 '13 at 23:23

Tim Burch

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Just did that. Thanx. I had get my charset to latin1, did not work. – MontrealDevOne Oct 17 '13 at 23:31

What is the best practice in storing pinyin characters in a MySQL database?

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