On Thursday 07 December 2006 10:09, Ed wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need a database that is able to handle french characters.

Sorry about that, it's probably due to my OS rather than MySQL.
$ echo "Fête"
Fête
$ touch Fête
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 Dec 7 14:20 F?te
$ rm Fête

Hmmm, back to OS