Unicode issues connecting Crystal Report to MySQL 5.0

Post Author: Charles Wong
CA Forum: Data Connectivity and SQL
Hi,
We are developing a web application by PHP 4.4.5, Crystal Report XI developer edition (English version), MySQL 5.0 and English Windows 2003 server.
MySQL has been configured to store unicode values in all levels. In other words, connectivity, server itself, tables, etc are set to unicode.
In the web browser, PHP can store and show special Portugues characters (e.g. çã), Chinese (both traditional and simplified) normally. In MySQL browser, all these values can be shown successfully.
In Crystal Report, both Traditional and simplifed Chinese characters show as ???, however. The connection between Crystal Report and MySQL is throught MySQL ODBC 3.5.12 version.
Does anybody know why? Any special setting needed in Crystal Report or in MySQL or in ODBC???

Post Author: Charles Wong
CA Forum: Data Connectivity and SQL
Hi All,
I'm replying myself.
I read something in the Internet. Somebody said Windows and Crystal report use UCS-2 (or UTF-16?) as the unicode encoding scheme. In our the system, we set to UTF-8. Can this be a problem?

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