On Tue, August 8, 2006 10:27 am, John Wells wrote: > Despite all of my Googling and noodling, I can't seem to figure this > out, and am hoping someone might be able to point me in the right > direction. I would guess that the MySQL client linked into PHP isn't UTF-8, and it keeps asking the MySQL server to switch to Latin1... You may find this blog post worth reading: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/01/turning_mysql_data_in_latin1_t.html -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php