Hi, About this bug report (moved by me to support). I don't understand what he means by "a latin1_swedish_ci field that holds data which represents windows-1251 characters". The test he suggests today works as he says. I used Windows's charmap to choose the cyrillic character O with a vertical bar (represented here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet by value 424). I inserted this character via a small application as he suggests. With the small application (forcing a windows-1251 charset) I see the character correctly. In phpMyAdmin, using an hex transformation, phpMyAdmin 2.8.2 displays c3 b4. Without a transformation, it's not the right character. Can someone explain me what is this c3 b4? Because in win 1251 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP1251 this O vertical bar character should be D4. Note: In the thread I made a test with what I think is the proper way of inserting cyrillic characters. Marc