MarkH, Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 2:18:24 PM, you wrote: MaAdn> I need to create a database with tables that can contain either Russian or MaAdn> Latin1 characters.
MaAdn> Is it right that version 3.23.53 does not support Unicode? Yes. MaAdn> If so, how can I MaAdn> get around this problem. Can I create 2 databases one using the Latin1 and MaAdn> the other using the Russian character set? Indeed can I have 2 databases MaAdn> referencing different character sets on the same MySQL installation or is MaAdn> the character set a MySQL server level configuration option? Till 4.1 you can't set up different character sets for single MySQL server You must run another instance of mysqld. You can store data in both encoding as well. If you set default-character-set=latin1, you will have some problems with searching and sorting. If russian data will be stored in win1251, you can avoid this problem by declaring VARCHAR columns as BINARY or use BLOB. But it doesn't work if russian data is stored in koi8-r. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Victoria Reznichenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
