Why is MyISAM problematic... MyISAM is a storage engine with some features... InnoDB is another storage engine with other features... and so on...
As far as I know MyISAM is default storage engine... unless you specify by hand another storage engine: CREATE TABLE xyz (colX INT NULL) ENGINE=_STORAGE_ENGINE_ I used UTF8 with MyISAM... and with InnoDB for Romanian characters and Chinese characters... and any combination worked well... And as far as I know... instead of all those commands you can issue: SET NAMES utf8; and it will suffice... I know it does for me ! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Gabriel PREDA Senior Web Developer -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
