can't insert "³\" as varchar in 7.0.2 and 7.1

Sorry if I post in the wrong list, but I've been tortured by the
problem for quite sometime.

I've been tring for several combinations, say

BACKEND FRONTEND

MULE_INTERNAL EUC_TW
BIG5
EUC_LATIN1
EUC_TW EUC_TW
BIG5
EUC_JP
......
.....

None of them can use varchar as fields, and insert "�\" into the row.
Can anyone help?

What is "�\" anyway? Is this a valid member of BIG5 or EUC_TW or
whatver?

BTW, there is no such an encoding EUC_LATIN1.
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Tatsuo Ishii

Sorry, I mixed it up with LATIN1.

Yes, "�\" is a valid big5 code, but I don't know how
to convert it to big5. This problem has been raised in
Taiwan forum many times, you can check it out from
http://www.linuxfab.cx. However, this site supports only
chinese.

Thanks
Dave

What is the hex value of "�\"?
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Tatsuo Ishii