Stormblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hopefully this will be the last snag...least till the next one :)
> 
> I'm having a problem setting the charset to unicode (utf-8). If I
> understood what I read I can set each table to support a charset. But what
> I want to do is set the default charset for a database to be utf-8. Is this
> possible? If so how?

Yes, it's possible from version 4.1.0.

CREATE DATABASE db_name DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;

        http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/CREATE_DATABASE.html

> 
> In any case, I need to be able to store unicode data and retrieve it.


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