Hello,
There are several ways to go about doing this.
1)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...ate-table.html
When you create a table, you can set what character set it is in. Make
sure it's unicode and you're set (utf)
2) The client that you're connecting with (mysql, php, python, etc) can
determine what character set they're inputting into the database. For
php, configure php.ini, for the mysql client, edit my.ini, etc.