Hello ! I am not very sure about this, and so, this could be viewed as a dumb newbie question. I need to add various data in different languages into mysql. The data includes characters such as "A`WmdV²”, “JÆÁõu, ÁÈøÓ uÁÔ¯, ÃnõÚ, ö£õ´¯õÚ,£¯ÚØÓ” , etc. Later, on a web page, people would search for those strings by typing the search queries using the relevant fonts, and the page would search from the database. I tried to use varchar, and it seemed to work. But i am not sure what all column types can i possibly use? I just need indexes on some columns (doesn't have to be primary or unique). Thanks in advance, for any tips/ideas Regards Venky
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