ODBC 4-byte UTF8 error and MS Access 2010 (3 replies)

I have Access 2010. I installed the ODBC driver (v5.2) and I am running MySQL on Ubuntu 11.10 with MySQL version 5.1.63.

I am able to connect to the database, and get the tables linked. I can input numeric data (integer).

But I can NOT input text data in fields. I get the following error


ODBC--insert on a linked table 'tBought' failed.
[MySQL][ODBC 5.2(w) Driver][mysqld-5.1.63-0ubuntu0.11.10.1]Server does not support 4-byte encoded UTF8 characters. (#0)



I have looked all over, and this is the best I can come up with. I may be totally wrong on some of this, but this is what I think I've discovered thus far.

Access 2010 uses 4-byte encoded UTF8, whereas MySQL 5.1 doesn't support that (3-byte only???). So changing the collation has done nothing for me.

I then installed MySQL 5.5 (an a different computer) and it works just fine. I can link the tables and everything gets entered.

So, is there a way to make the ODBC driver work with Access 2010 and MySQL 5.1? I have other databases that in my original 5.1 install, and I would like to avoid upgrading. Especially since 5.5 is considered "testing" in the repositories still.

I'm hoping there is a way to work around this problem and make the ODBC driver work. Any ideas?