How to configure the Amazon RDS to store Chinese Characters in the right way? Currently the text all becomes '????'.
I already created new parameter group and set character set as utf8 and modify the instance. Below are the detail info:
mysql> show variables like '%char%';
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /rdsdbbin/mysql-5.5.27.R1/share/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_unicode_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+