Charset errors

[Chris Goff]

Hi

I'm having problems with my database connection, it seems to be producing the following errors in my HTML code:

File 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\?.conf' not found (Errcode: 2)
Character set '#33' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\Index' file

The statement I'm using to connect to the database is:

$connection = @mysql_connect("localhost","username","password") or die("Could not connect to database");

The database is hosted by my web hosting company (so I don't have access to the set up) and according to my phpMyAdmin consul:

MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
MySQL connection collation: utf8_general_ci

If anyone can help that'd be much appreciated

Chris