> but the different lanaguage setting in MySQL seem to > mainly apply to its error messages
Collation and sorting, too. > To my knowledge, MySQL does not yet > offer full UTF-8 support True, but UTF-8 is Unicode, and it sounds like the OP wants to work with BIG-5, a two-byte Chinese national encoding. > store the special characters > using the \uXXXX notation or something similar. Depends on the application language, not on MySQL. MySQL either takes it as text or as a BLOB (well, essentially that's what it does). (I still have trouble imagining how the westerners keep thinking that \uXXXX is a solution for the CJK languages, but that's off-topic.) -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
