Dear listers, I am looking for someone with experience in Thai support for MySQL. I have found a person, named Pruet Boonma, in MySQL manual, but his old e-mail address does not seem to work. Can anyone recommend me the place to turn for help to? Please bear in mind that I do not speak Thai at all. the problem is that we build a small MySQL-based web interface with DBI. We can query the database, containing records in Thai language (codepage CP874) from listboxes and checkboxes, but string matching does not want to work properly. I know that MySQL loads iso8859-1 charset by default, so changing to Thai charset TIS620 did not resolve the problem at all. In fact, the things got worse... But I am not sure why typing in Thai character strings does not yield correct matches. I would be grateful for any help. Best, Victor