Thanks mc12345678! I didn't purposefully move to utf8. I see in myPhpAdmin the Server charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8). On my old and new databases I see a mixture of utf8_general_ci and latin1_swedish_ci under Collation. I don't know anything about the subject yet except what I just read looking at the db2utf8. Is the Collation field informative in this subject? Should all tables be utf8?