Cyrillic & MySql issue

Hi guys, I am working on a multilingual web site (English and Ukrainian); so far, I was working on English part and now time to work on Ukrainian. The problem I ran into was that if I submit information to Mysql database something written in cyrillic, I can't get it to display properly when I try to take that info from database at a later time. One person told me I have to recompile mysql, another said that I have to change the column type (now it's 'longtext') If anyone knows how to help me, please let me know, Thanks, Vladislav Kulchitski http://vladik.tripod.com