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From: Francesco R <vivo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:51:25
Message-Id: 43246D71.90103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade by Jason Wever
1 Jason Wever wrote:
2
3 > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Francesco R wrote:
4 >
5 > >> Please notice that MySQL-5.0 has been erroneously unmasked for few
6 > hours
7 > >> but it will return under the package.mask cover at next rsync.
8 > >>
9 > >> The MySQL herd is pleased to announce that Mysql 4.1 has been unmasked
10 > >> today and is now marked unstable.
11 >
12 >
13 > Is there any particular reason that the utf8 use flag was
14 > re-introduced rather than using the unicode use flag like everything
15 > else does (and was standardized on)?
16
17 Because it does not "Adds support for Unicode" but "switch default to
18 utf8 character set" in MySQL config file, it's not possible to
19 deactivate support for unicode in 4.1 version.
20
21 >
22 > Regards,
23 > -- Jason Wever
24 > Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead
25
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Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>