Thanks for all the replays, here are the details:
The server is Windows 2000 with SP3 and the client is Windows XP Prof. The Frontend is written under Java and is a special programm for us. Here is my my.ini: #This File was made using the WinMySQLAdmin 1.4 Tool #04.12.2002 09:52:43 #Uncomment or Add only the keys that you know how works. #Read the MySQL Manual for instructions [mysqld] basedir=P:/mysql bind-address=192.168.1.30 datadir=P:/mysql/data language=P:/mysql/share/german default-character-set=latin1_de #slow query log#= #tmpdir#= #port=3306 #set-variable=key_buffer=16M [WinMySQLadmin] Server=P:/mysql/bin/mysqld-nt.exe user=**** password=**** QueryInterval=10 [Client] character-sets-dir=P:/mysql/share/charsets default-character-set=latin1_de And my db.properties: # Eintrag in der Clusterresource java -server -Xmx128m -jar P:\resource\jar\joe.jar p:/cfg/cluster/ini/db.properties db joe.autostart=db # LOG4J Konfiguration include.lcf=/cfg/include/logcfg/DB.lcf # ENDE LOG4J Konfiguration xmlpath=/resource/xds;xml include.mcast=/cfg/cluster/ini/mcast.properties #onco.debug=0 # onco.sleep=5 db.prefix=/Service/db/my db.host=ELR1SRV db.definition=databases.xml db.connect.suffix="characterEncoding=iso-8859-1&useUnicode=true" # Polen: # db.connect.suffix="characterEncoding=iso-8859-2&useUnicode=true" joe.processname=Datenbank Server I hope somebody can help us !!! Here is the output of the command mysqladmin variables: mysqladmin: ERROR: unknown variable 'default-character-set=latin1_de' All 'ä', 'ö', 'ü', etc. are changing in ?,! What can I do against it? Rainer Sql, query --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php