Im not sure if my experience will be of any help but here it is: I used a database with utf8 as default charset (you can easily set this with mysql administrator) and the columns that I needed to store Macedonian cyrilic characters were varchar. Some letters were stored as ?. When I changed the column type to varbinary I was able to store/retreive all the letters properly. However if you change the type of the columns you cannot use the mysql adminisators backup sql queries to restore a database that contains utf8 characters (at least I failed). Using a PHP script will help. For those that use mySQL with some script language using base64 encoding/decoding funtions for non latin1 letters is the safest way (however you cannot strictly predict the lenght of the encoded string based on the lenght of the plaintext). best regards --- Ace Dimitrievski, research assistant, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Skopje --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The older version is 4.xx.xx im not sure how to tell. > > New version is 4.1.12 > > Thank you, > James > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Dembecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "James Sherwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <mysql@lists.mysql.com> > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 2:50 PM > Subject: Re: French Characters, Still no answer > > > > Still no answer, perhaps, but ther'es still no question. > > > > Per my earlier response... What version of MySQL is the old version > > you refer to, what version is the new version you refer to? With that > > information someone here is more likely to be able to tell you > > something useful... without that you're not likely to get much of a > > response. > > > > Best Regards, Bruce > > > > On Aug 15, 2005, at 7:59 AM, James Sherwood wrote: > > > > > I am still having trouble with french characters if anyone has ANY > > > ideas, please help. > > > > > > We have installed the newest version of MySql and cannot get it to > > > play nice > > > with French characters. Our older version worked fine. The > > > problem may (or > > > may not) be that when we put the dump into the new database(yes its > > > default > > > charset is Utf8) the default character set for the table is Utf8 > > > but some > > > fields are like this: > > > > > > 'Story' longtext character set latin1 NOT NULL > > > > > > We tried linking our tomcat to the old database on the other server > > > through > > > this tomcat and everything works fine but when we link the tomcat > > > back to > > > the new database, it will not play nice with french characters. > > > (they come > > > out as outlined squares etc) > > > > > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated > > > James > > > > > > > > > -- > > MySQL General Mailing List > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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