the problem is classic for most people is set at
ISO-8859-1
importing into mysql with a charset of utf-8 is where the truncating is happening.
It's running on
PHP: 5.2.0
Apache: 1.3.37 (who still runs this?)
MySQL:
Server version: 5.0.32-log
MySQL client version: 4.0.20
MySQL charset: (utf8)
Not the most current versions, but meets criteria.