I want to store the japanese characters in mySql tables. How can i ??

What character set should i have to specify and what should be the datatype for the particular columns.

I have tried using the default characterset and varchar, but it is not storing accordingly. Can you people help me.

Hi hYph3n,

Please find the following link that could be helpful to fulfill ur requirement.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...t-unicode.html

All the best

http://www.browardphp.com/mysql_manu...l_Charset.html