Hi there! I'm sure this kind of problem has arisen before, but I couldn't find any clear solutions in the archives or on google. On a fresh installation of MW1.13.1 using default MySQL 4.1/5.0 character input, I'm having trouble creating a user with a name in Korean characters, and receive the following error: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "Database::safeQuery". MySQL returned error "1267: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_bin,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost)". Php.ini has the default charset settings, and mysql gives the following status report: mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2 Connection id: xxxx Current database: Current user: xxxx@xxxxxxxxx SSL: Not in use Current pager: stdout Using outfile: '' Using delimiter: ; Server version: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1 (Ubuntu) Protocol version: 10 Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket Server characterset: latin1 Db characterset: latin1 Client characterset: latin1 Conn. characterset: latin1 UNIX socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock Uptime: I don't know much about the way mysql handles encoding, but the site I'm working on will need strong multilingual support, so I would prefer to use Mediawiki's recommended setup to mysql's native utf-8 support. I would appreciate it if anyone has any tips on getting this working better. Richard Austin _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l