ON_CHARSET_CONVERSION_FAILURE option

Function

Controls what happens if an error is encountered during character conversion.

Allowed values

String. See below for allowed values.

Default

IGNORE

Description

Controls what happens if an error is encountered during character conversion, as follows:

IGNORE Errors and warnings do not appear.

WARNING Reports substitutions and illegal characters as warnings. Illegal characters are not translated.

ERROR Reports substitutions and illegal characters as errors.

Single-byte to single-byte converters are not able to report substitutions and illegal characters, and must be set to IGNORE.