Why do you need to do a MySQL upgrade you say? "Up until MySQL 5.5 (released December of 2010) the UTF-8 support was severely hobbled." [missing some Japanese

Why do you need to do a MySQL upgrade you say? "Up until MySQL 5.5 (released December of 2010) the UTF-8 support was severely hobbled." [missing some Japanese characters, including those used in many people's names, and accents] http://mzsanford.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/mysql-and-unicode/ http://mzsanford.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/mysql-and-unicode/