Yes, I read this opinion that MySQL is only sql interface to filesystem :-) I plan to use win1250 encoding because this is native czech windows encoding (I do not understand why M$ invents the wheel and invents new code pages (cp1250) although the code page latin2 was here all the time). BTW czech windows uses cp1250 for window app and cp852 for console app. So if I write C++ console app in BCB and printf czech text then I see garbage (do you know another "OS" that by nature uses two code pages for its two app groups? Horrible)
