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Can mysql 4.0.23 be used for multi-language data storage?

I developed my PHP program with MySql5 (utf8) and have to ouput data to a server running MySql 4.0.23. Unfortunately I found the non-English characters shown in PHP pages (still readable when viewed in phpMyAdmin) are all become non-meaningful words!

If my data just contain Chinese, just simply set system charset to BIG5 will solved the problem. However, my data will be in English, German, Japanese and Chinese. I am quite new for MySQL but based on my search that MySql below 4.1 only support server level charset. Thus I even can't consider store them in separated DB/tables with different charsets.

Is there an solution for this without upgrade MySQL ? Thx in advance.

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