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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: LWC[/u][p]I'm so glad that for every wise guy anonymous user, there's a ByteEnable.

You've fixed it!

But let's start from the beginning: I could only find /etc/my.cnf and it had nothing about character sets or collations. Nevertheless, I guess my default is UTF8 so there's no problem.

Now I'll skip to the end: I believe sql/mysql_tableanddata.php should keep letting the user decide what they want (i.e. keep using the default collation they chose in the database they created for Geeklog).

So the only thing I did was:
[quote system/databases/mysql.class.php]
// Connect to MySQL server
        $this->_db = mysql_connect($this->_host,$this->_user,$this->_pass) or die('Cannnot connect to DB server');
// custom code - start
        mysql_query("SET NAMES 'UTF8'");
// custom code - end
[/quote]
And now Unicode letters show up natively both in MySQL and in Geeklog!
Which means I can finally use PHPMyAdmin for everything!

Of course, since it wasn't a fresh installation, searching and replacing the collatation inside the backup file wasn't enough! I had to decode - yes, [b]decode[/b] - my [b]UTF-8[/b] backup file from UTF-8 because when I export it MySQL converts the UTF-8 symbols...into UTF-8 and that's one level too much. So I had to decode it first.
Hey, it's not so easy! The only way I managed to do it was using my site.
So if this helps anyone:
[code]<?php
$fileread = file('geeklog_old.sql');
$fileread = utf8_decode(join("", $fileread));
$filewrite = fopen('geeklog.sql', "w");
fwrite($filewrite, $fileread);
fclose($filewrite);
?>

[/code][/p][/QUOTE]

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