I've read a number of articles on storing multi-language strings in MySQL, but I can't seem to find anything specific (or credible) on Hmong. I have no trouble with latin (European) languages, but if someone could enlighten me on Hmong, that would be terrific.
Thanks!
P.S. Using PHP for the scripting, if anyone cares.
Since Hmong isn't part of unicode i'm afraid you are quite stuck unless you want to manually add and compile a new charset into mysql. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/adding-character-set.html
What alphabet are you using?
If you're talking RPA, you'll have no trouble with that as it's just Latin. If you're talking about Pahawh, I'm afraid there's not much you can do. Not only is it not (yet) specified in Unicode, but there doesn't seem to be any standardised character set for it at all, only ad hoc encodings generally using the Unicode Private Use Area.
Do you have existing text in this alphabet? Who are your potential users and what keyboards and fonts do they use?
If you're interested in helping get Pahawh into Unicode, see the Pahawh-hmong list for discussion.