https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/data/18599/character-setUsing Appian Cloud DB MySQL, trying to import the SQL file which contains the German letters like &#214;,&#228; with the character set utf-8. But for some rows these letters were replaced with special characters like ?, symbols,etc. Do we need to do with any otheren-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/73287?ContentTypeID=1Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:38:33 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:a95ecf8a-2a71-4b8a-a8ba-812cb10e9a50Shakilah<p>Thanks Arun,</p> <p>we are using the same collation with character set utf-8. But issue exists.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/73242?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:58:54 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:9413e731-aa78-468c-adbc-91bc99599464arunramanathtm<p>The best solutions which I tried are:</p> <p>1. to use the characterset <strong><code>utf8_unicode_ci&nbsp;</code></strong><code>or&nbsp;<span>or&nbsp;</span><strong>utf8_bin<span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></strong></code></p> <p><code></code><code>2. use the characterset</code><strong><code> utf8mb4</code><span>&nbsp;</span></strong>and the collation&nbsp;<strong><code>utf8mb4_unicode_ci</code><span>&nbsp;</span></strong>in MySQL!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>