>> I'm missing replies from you related to the UTF-8 issues. Is there
>> something that also got lost?

> It's possible I didn't receive them.

I asked to have the UTF-8 to ANSI conversion switched off that you do
when the Client Character Set is set to 'UFT8'. When I set the Client
Character Set to 'UTF8' I expect all data strings to come in as UTF-8.

Regards

Stefan