Experience Unicode enabling MySQL
Talk given at the 17th Unicode conference by Thomas Emerson explaining the various ways to use Unicode with MySQL. Requires MS Powerpoint.
http://www.basistech.com/papers/database/mysql.ppt
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How to store 2 bytes String into MySQL[This link generated an error during the last automatic check]
Hack to store multibyte strings into an ASCII MySQL instance. Code sample is provided. Beware that this is definitelly not a *clean* trick :).
http://scarab.tigris.org/mysql-internationalization.html