[dba-Tech] Bizarre Font event

Seen it before?  Yes.
Understand why it happened?  No.
I hope somebody on this list does know why that can happen.
T

Tina Norris Fields
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On 3/17/2013 2:15 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> I'm working with a guy in San Francisco. The app is Access + MySQL back
> end. We use a cool MySQL IDE called Navicat, one of whose virtues is easy
> backups.
>
> I did a little demo app of some concepts we're exploring vis-a-vis his big
> app. I sent my colleague a zip containing the Access FE and the MySQL
> backup. He restored it on his server, set up a DSN and ran the demo.
>
> The demo works fine, in terms of functionality. But for some reason, some
> of the text fields are displayed in Chinese characters. An examination of
> the tabledefs within Access reveals that Access thinks these fields are
> binary, when in fact they are just text. How this happened, or in which
> piece of software, I have no idea.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this sort of behaviour before? Or know what can be
> done to fix it?
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
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