Hi... I'm Bae So Jeong, a web-programmer at Digital Chosun. Would you help me for MySql? ^^: I will develop some web-sites by Japanese, Chinese, English.... etc. These sites will service at one server, one O/S. Many reference sites say: "Japanese site will service very well at Japanese O/S, JapaneseDB!" Then, some servers are necessary for some web-sites written by japanse, chinese, english.... In the web-server aspect, I guess, this is not a problem, with the exception of DB. How I must do these services by using MySQL? In Oracle, CharacterSet can be setted by a instance, a Program can encode characers to instance setted ascii-set, a instance can be setted UTF. In MySql, it can be? I'm a layman in MySql.. Please, Help me.. ^^; Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]