On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:56:55AM -0700, V. M. Brasseur wrote: > *I* understand that Unicode utf8 support does not happen until version > 4.1 (I can read the manual), but there are some in the office who are > skeptical and somehow believe that there is support for it in earlier > versions (as early as 3.23, according to them). > > To set all of our minds at ease, could someone else please confirm or > deny for me that MySQL does not support utf8 prior to version 4.1? I > don't believe I'm wrong in this case, but if I am I would very much like > to know.
MySQL versions before 4.1 do not support UTF-8. It is, however, possible to simply store UTF-8 data in a string field (VARCHAR, CHAR, TEXT, etc) in those versions. You simply won't be able to get the correct ordering in ORDER BY clauses, and full-text search will not always work as expected. Jim Winstead MySQL Inc. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
