I have a client using Linux server with PHP Version: 5.2.17 and MySQL 5.0.51a

He got an order with a text box attribute entry that was truncated. Apparently when the é character was used, that character and everything beyond it gets truncated. It showed up in the clients' email correctly but chopped it out in the database and therefore when they wen into the admin area, it was truncated. He was able to go out and place another order using the same attribute with similar truncated results. I thought maybe the database was not accepting the acute e but I can go to the database and put the character directly into it. When I manually put it into the database, the character shows in the orders as:
ié

...which I guess is better than just blowing away the rest of the line. This website is only in English language so other than the occasional special character, there has been no issues with characters truncating lines.

Any suggestions on how to circumvent this?

Thanks,

Jim