Character encoding issues in MySQL

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Published on 2010-03-14T17:48:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 17:55 UTC
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In my database we have fields where the data is not readable. I now know why it happened but I don't know how to fix it.

I found a way to get the info back from the database:

SELECT id,
       name 
  FROM projects 
 WHERE LENGTH(name) != CHAR_LENGTH(name);

One of the rows returned shows:

id   | name
-------------------------
1008 | Cajón el Diablo

This should be:

id   | name
-------------------------
1008 | Cajón el Diablo

Can somebody help me figure out how to fix this problem? How can I convert this using SQL? Is SQL not good? If not, how about Python?

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