Guys

For some reason i cant read anything written in Russian language in my database thru Phpmyadmin. I guess it has something to do with connection/database collation char sets but which one exactly ?

Sol ::

What version of MySQL are you using? I investigated this problem extensively on behalf of a Russian client and the only solution I found to work was to add the following line to /etc/my.cnf :

init-connect=SET NAMES binary