Once again I took the fight with Koha to try to make it work with non ASCII characters. I've set the the following variables for MySQL, Apache and PHP: vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8 AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 vim/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini default_charset = "utf-8" vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf [client] character_set_client=utf8 [mysql] default-character-set=utf8 [mysqld] init-connect = 'SET NAMES utf8' character-set-server=utf8 collation-server=utf8_swedish_ci /etc/rc3.d/S19mysql restart mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%'; +--------------------------+----------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +--------------------------+----------------------------+ | character_set_client | utf8 | | character_set_connection | utf8 | | character_set_database | utf8 | | character_set_filesystem | binary | | character_set_results | utf8 | | character_set_server | utf8 | | character_set_system | utf8 | | character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ | +--------------------------+----------------------------+ 8 rows in set (0.01 sec) mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'collation%'; +----------------------+-----------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +----------------------+-----------------+ | collation_connection | utf8_general_ci | | collation_database | utf8_swedish_ci | | collation_server | utf8_swedish_ci | +----------------------+-----------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) However when I try to add an item it cuts of the text at the non ASCII char. Please look at the pictures here to see what I mean: http://thommym.blogspot.com/2009/01/koha-and-utf-8.html Also in I add text for members etc. with non ASCII chars in it it is cut at the non ASCII position. So, anyone to my rescue???