Mysql – Convert MS access to MySQL DB using php

have you tried:

mysqldump --compatible=postgresql dbname > export.sql

then do this to escape quotes

sed "s/\\\'/\'\'/g" export.sql > export1.sql

may need some more massaging so look at mysqldump doco more closely.

I just solved the charset problem by using Notepad++.

The problem was that my php version is 4.5.5.1 and the hosting firm's was 3.3.8. Because of that, it could not work with the utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci.

To solve the problem open the exported SQL file, search and replace the utf8mb4 with utf8, after that search and replace the utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci with utf8_general_ci. Save the file and import it into your database. After that, change the wp-config.php charset option to utf8, and the magic starts.

Note that it worked in a Hungarian database.