MySQL Server: 4.1.1 alpha
MySQL Control Center: 0.9.4 beta

I am not sure whether this is a Control Center or MySQL Server problem, but here it 
goes:

I have a database with MyISAM tables created using character set UTF-8. I have 
installed support for Chinese on my machine, and using MySQL Control Center I entered 
some values in Chinese for some varchar fields. I had also changed the app font for 
Control Center to SimSun, which supports Chinese characters. When I requery the table, 
the Chinese characters have been changed to question marks. I expected, of course, 
that the Chinese characters would be displayed.

I tried this to access the data programatically (using an MFC app and ODBC Connector) 
and it also shows question marks. I'm not sure whether the conversion to question 
marks occurs when the data is stored into the table, or when the data is retrieved.

I found the following discussion thread debating what seems to be a similar issue, but 
it was not clear whether to me they ever determined a solution or if it is a bug:

  http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/164067

Here are the values for my character set variables:

+--------------------------+--------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                    |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+
| character_set_server     | utf8                     |
| character_set_system     | utf8                     |
| character_set_database   | utf8                     |
| character_set_client     | utf8                     |
| character_set_connection | utf8                     |
| character-sets-dir       | C:\mysql\share\charsets/ |
| character_set_results    | utf8                     |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+

I am starting the MySQL server as follows:

  mysqld --default-character-set=utf8

I need to see the Chinese characters both in Control Center and my MFC app which uses 
ODBC Connector.

Thanks,
S Lopes


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