So how can I do that? I've already tried SET CHARACTER SET and it didn't work since someone said its not available in MySQL 4.0.

You can store UTF-8 in any database in the world. UTF-8 is compatible with any application capable of dealing with null-terminated strings of 8-bit characters. That's why it's possible in the Unix/C world, which was designed with null-terminated strings of 8-bit characters in mind.

What UTF-8 support gets you is the ability for the database server to do things like Unicode-aware collations and such.

But the lack of this feature doesn't prevent you from simply _storing_ UTF-8.


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