I'm developing a project where we need to persist our information in a legacy database that has ISO-8859-1 tables. So before writing something to the database I need to convert it from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, and every time I retrieve it from the database, I need to convert it back to UTF-8.
I was trying to use the library code.google.com/p/go-charset/ as the following for each text field that I need to persist.
import (
"bytes"
"code.google.com/p/go-charset/charset"
_ "code.google.com/p/go-charset/data"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"strings"
)
func toISO88591(utf8 string) string {
buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
w, err := charset.NewWriter("latin1", buf)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer w.Close()
fmt.Fprintf(w, utf8)
return buf.String()
}
func fromISO88591(iso88591 string) string {
r, err := charset.NewReader("latin1", strings.NewReader(iso88591))
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
buf, err := ioutil.ReadAll(r)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
return string(buf)
}
The problem is that the data is still persisted in UTF-8 even if I use the function toISO88591. I am doing something wrong in this conversion?
My database is a MySQL, and I'm using the github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql driver with the following connection parameters:
<user>:<password>@tcp(<host>:<port>)/<database>?collation=latin1_general_ci
Best regards!