Лол (Lol)…
I tried
this: http://blog.oneiroi.co.uk/mysql/mysql-forcing-utf-8-compliance-for-all-connections/
and this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3513773/change-mysql-default-character-set-to-utf-8-in-my-cnf
and a few others I have lost the links to (one of which was in cdr_adaptive_odbc.conf)
but I did not stumble on that fix…
It works wonderfully for me both with my test entries and another one I did expressly for Andrey (arakhm)
2015-09-29 18:58:28 1443567508.3 "Привет "<200> <5555551212> Dial 7775551212 ANSWERED 00:13
Привет (Privet but pronounced priviett is the casual way to say “hi” in Russian which I am not sure if it’s what Andrey speaks but these are Cyrillic letters so it’s as good a test as any…).
I was going to suggest other things which could be done but as far as I am concerned this it the best fix of them all…
The Asterisk guy I talked to said certain combination of databases in certain conditions could support UTF-8 and with this fix the distro seems to meet these conditions and is a relatively controlled environment so it’s a lot easier to make sure it stays that way…
Tstar did a very nice find… I was searching for something like this yesterday but never found this…
Thank you and have a nice day!
Nick