On 06/04/2012 11:44 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to configure utf8 in mysql under centos6 to display > special characters, like accents. I use this mysql instance to store > plain syslog logs. I have configured this under my.cnf: > > [mysqld] > init_connect = 'SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci' > init_connect = 'SET NAMES utf8' > character-set-server = utf8 > collation-server = utf8_general_ci > > [client] > default-character-set = utf8 > > but it doesn't seems to work ... Any idea?? Did you make sure your database is using utf8 as well? What does "show variables like 'char%'" show? Regards, Dennis