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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:21:08
Message-Id: 20050911191928.386843ff@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade by Francesco R
1 On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:46:25 +0200 Francesco R <vivo@g.o> wrote:
2 | > Is there any particular reason that the utf8 use flag was
3 | > re-introduced rather than using the unicode use flag like everything
4 | > else does (and was standardized on)?
5 |
6 | Because it does not "Adds support for Unicode" but "switch default to
7 | utf8 character set" in MySQL config file, it's not possible to
8 | deactivate support for unicode in 4.1 version.
9
10 Bleh. A USE flag for a configuration file setting? Just install with
11 sane defaults and let the sysadmin change it if necessary...
12
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14 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade Francesco R <vivo@g.o>