All in the title. I'm looking for how to reference a local, not network, path, as a virtual drive letter. An innocuous example:  C:\Storage as G:


Question: MySQL does not work fine with UTF-8
Answer: I replaced my.cnf by the default my.cnf, added 

CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; 


for the DB and all tables.

Now it is works fine! Thank you very much!