Axel Schwenke wrote:
> Maybe this was changed recently
Yes, the manual page changed since yesterday. Compare

http://web.archive.org/web/200604281...load-data.html

> but the manual page you reference says:
>
> "Beginning with MySQL 5.0.38, if the contents of the input file use
> a character set that differs from the default, it is possible (and
> usually preferable) to use the CHARACTER SET clause to specify the
> character set of the file."
>
> So your MySQL is too old for that feature.

"Too old?" 5.0.38 isn't even released yet. 5.0.37 is the latest download.

John Nagle