Fulltext problem

Hi, today I've experienced a problem that I don't understand and I can't solve! I've created a table as follows: --- CREATE TABLE `ft_test` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `field1` varchar(255) NOT NULL , `field2` varchar(255) NOT NULL , `field3` text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY

mysql and utf8

the first example) by converting special characters in a format understood by mysql as UTF8 and preserving the others characters! Is there a way? Thanks, Devy