On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:14:00AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > I'm trying to migrate a Drupal database from one ISP to another. The > source is running MySQL 4.1 on taroon (RHEL 3) and the target is MySQL > 4.0 on taroon. > > During the import on 4.0 , I get the error that 'DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1' > is unsupported. I've googled and googled and the common suggestion is > to simply delete the phrase and let the data be imported without it. > Yes, it imports, but some of the pages don't translate properly any > more. For example, a page with the 3/4 text symbol now appears as > "¾â€\235" and similarly copyright symbols are mangled. Following up my posting, the answer is to run mysqldump with the --compatible mysql40 option. This is not documented in the manpage. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program