From: Hassan Schroeder Date: 2012-10-17T00:09:54+09:00 Subject: Re: MySQL2 and non text into varchar On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Ja Ma wrote: > ... mysql rejects the inserts into a varchar field with this > non text characters. No. You need to provide more context (actual error message, the output of `show create table` , etc.). There's no intrinsic problem in storing punctuation characters in a MySQL VARCHAR column. -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder@gmail.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan