Hi, folks: This patch is used to avoid wrong character stored in database. for more details, there's a blog entry: http://wang.yuxuan.org/blog/2007/1/26/mysql_collation_charset_problem_and_patch_for_nucleuscms_and_wikkawikki The patch it self: http://wang.yuxuan.org/files/wikka_dbcharset.patch -- regards, fishy