Hi there is no UTF-8 possibility for --default-character-set mysqld starting option. How can I tell mysql to send to clients utf-8 if everything on the database is latin-1 ? if --default-character-set=UTF-8 would exists in shared/charsets, does it mean I have to recode all the content of my database or does it mean mysql would convert it dynamically when sending something to a client ? has anyone got the same problem ? looked in the docs, but not a word on utf-8. thanks pascal barbedor