> -----Original Message-----
> From: warmbooter@... [mailto:warmbooter@...]
> Sent: Martes 21 de Noviembre de 2000 19:54
>
> Sorry, not IBO specific but as my access to the MERs list is down I would
> be pleased if someone can help me with this :
>
> I have a database with charset iso8859_1 and some fields with COLLATE
> PT_PT. I would like to change the charset of all the fields to
> WIN1252, and
> change the collate too... is there a secure fast way to do this, maybe
> through the system tables ???

No, there's no safe way. You risk transliteration errors as a minimum.
Create a new db and do the pump through the client.

C.