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Setting up mysql tables for UNICODE

Hi,

I am willing to setup my MySQL tables so they can hold international
strings (English, French, German and Spanish). I understand that
Unicode character coding is a good candidate to do so.
Currently I use the default character set and it looks like it does
not like characters such as "é", "ô" .etc... (they come up as strange
characters probably indicating that the code of the character has been
truncated).
Is my understanding correct?
If yes, could anyone lead me through on how to create such tables
coding text as Unicode?
I went through the MySQL administration guide but cannot get a clear
understanding on how this is supposed to be performed.
Ideally I would like to setup the MySQL *server* for it to process the
tables with the Unicode character set *by default * (rather than
specifying each tables one by one as using Unicode encoding).
Note: I can use either MySQLServer 4.0 or MySQLServer 4.1
Thanks!
Jul 19 '05 #1
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