And yet another MySQL character set problem solved. I had a remote FreeBSD server running MySQL 4.0 and a local Windows server running MySQL 5.0 (the XAMPP web servers package). I had no problems doing an export from MySQL 4.0 (running on cp1251 charset) to MySQL 5.0 (running utf8 charset) with something like this: mysqldump -u -p --default-character-set=cp1251 dbname tablename > table.sql...