Dear R-help, I am reading strings (varchar) from MySQL database and instead of some characters get garbled chars. Strings are encoded in UTF-8. I have tried to change encoding in MySQL to latin7, but it does not help. I was not able to find solution, how to get strings in proper encoding/form. ------ OS windows xp ------ R info MySQL connection commands library( RMySQL ) ## load RMySQL and DBI packages drv <- dbDriver( "MySQL" ) > l10n_info() $MBCS [1] FALSE $`UTF-8` [1] FALSE $`Latin-1` [1] FALSE $codepage [1] 1257 > Sys.getlocale() [1] "LC_COLLATE=Lithuanian_Lithuania.1257;LC_CTYPE=Lithuanian_Lithuania.1257;LC_MONETARY=Lithuanian_Lithuania.1257;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Lithuanian_Lithuania.1257" > R.Version() $platform [1] "i386-pc-mingw32" $arch [1] "i386" $os [1] "mingw32" $system [1] "i386, mingw32" $status [1] "" $major [1] "2" $minor [1] "8.0" $year [1] "2008" $month [1] "10" $day [1] "20" $`svn rev` [1] "46754" $language [1] "R" $version.string [1] "R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)" -- regards, tomas krilavi?ius http://www.surface.lt/krilaviciust