User:Hannes Röst/phpmyadmin

Encoding Problem
The problem: mysql needs certain initialisation like "SET NAMES utf8" of the connection to get the encoding right. This is done at the beginning of a connection and the code can be found in the following file. This assumes that default is utf8 but this can be changed by editing the corresponding lines in said file:

This article did not solve the problem: http://brugbart.com/Articles/phpmyadmin-utf8-problem

This bugreport however describes an older problem but pointed my to the right location: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2801532&group_id=23067&atid=377411

Alternatives to phpmyadmin are http://www.guido-muehlwitz.de/2009/08/alternative-zu-phpmyadmin/