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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 18:37:01
Message-Id: 4324780C.6090100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 >On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:46:25 +0200 Francesco R <vivo@g.o> wrote:
4 >| > Is there any particular reason that the utf8 use flag was
5 >| > re-introduced rather than using the unicode use flag like everything
6 >| > else does (and was standardized on)?
7 >|
8 >| Because it does not "Adds support for Unicode" but "switch default to
9 >| utf8 character set" in MySQL config file, it's not possible to
10 >| deactivate support for unicode in 4.1 version.
11 >
12 >Bleh. A USE flag for a configuration file setting? Just install with
13 >sane defaults and let the sysadmin change it if necessary...
14 >
15 >
16 >
17 Agree, all toghether please say that it should be defaulted to "utf8"
18 also if the previous default was latin1.
19
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