Embarrassing but I blame it on hunger! It's working now. Bottom line was I hadn't restarted the server. Now I know I said I did. Here's where I blame hunger. I was restarted A server. My Tomcat server. I kept restarting it thinking I was restarting the MySQL server....don't ask. Like I said I blame it on hunger.
In any case, after a true restart it set all the variables to utf8 just fine. I went into Navicat and it picked it up just fine when I created a new database and table. So I just have to re-create the tables and re-import and I'm good to go. I may just re-create the tables (There's only 2) that will contain unicode data. Anyway, thanks for the help. I'm gonna go eat now. -- Stormblade (Shaolin Code Warrior) Software Developer (15+ Years Programming exp.) "The worth of your opinion is in direct proportion to the number of people who have asked for it." My System: http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=1683 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]