On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:51:57AM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > system-provided way of checking for rows that may not be UTF8? Or to > even have a constraint to this effect, to disallow any non-UTF8 data > from getting in there? The latter should be in effect if your database encoding is UTF-8. What's the database encoding? A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/