On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:26:14PM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > Thanks Andrew. > > On the server (the DB to be dumped) everything is "UTF8". > > On my home server (where I would like to mirror the DB), this is the output: Hrm. Well, what about the locale, as I suggested? I have no idea if it's relevant here, but give it a whack. Other than that, I'm not sure. You might want to troll the release notes to see if there was an encoding bug fixed in the intermediate releases between 8.2.whatever-you-converted-on and 8.2.current. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/