does mysql 4.0.25 standard support utf-8?

[<mihai.chira]

hy! I've been trying to find this piece of information in the manual, but 
seem to have some trouble. so I'm asking it out loud: I'd like to know 
whether mysql 4.0.25 supports utf-8 as an internal encoding. Because a 
server I like has this version and I need to deploy an international 
application, so I really need to store data in utf-8.
please help if you know. thank you!