Could you be more specific in describing what you want ? 😉
Sqlyog can work with tables where charset is UTF8. In my language (Danish) there are three special characters written Æ, Ø and Ã… (hope they display correctly in browsers around the world!) and they display correctly in Sqlyog with the “latin1” as well as the “uft8” charset as the charset for the table containing the data.
I have a lot of data with text strings from German, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese and more languages that all contain special characters, and no problems. But admittedly – they are all based on latin.
Charset is a pr. table setting with the MySQL server. Do you want to choose uft8 as charset for a table with CREATE_TABLE and ALTER_TABLE from the sqlyog GUI even if it is not default server setting?
Or is it the Sqlyog GUI itself that should be using utf8 ? Please be more specific!