Re: How to specify Charset with PDO/MySQL

Martin Martinov schrieb:
> Hello,
> you can use one of those queries:
>
> set names utf8;
> set character set utf8;
>
> I was going to describe what they are doing, but it's already here:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-connection.html
>

Ok, "set names utf8" solved my problem, but I have to pass this option
everytime I query the database?
I cannot use "default-character-set", because other php-apps on this
server still use latin1.
Any ideas?