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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:21:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |
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>wrote: |
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>| as many know, i dont use unicode, so i'm a bit ignorant of it ... |
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>| is there a good reason for having both a global 'unicode' USE flag and |
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>| a bunch of local 'utf8' USE flags ? or should i file bugs for people |
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>| to stop using 'utf8' and use 'unicode' instead ? |
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>utf8 is a particular way of encoding unicode. I'd say that the 'unicode' |
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>flag would be sufficient, except if for some reason the following |
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>bizarre setup were to occur: |
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>fooapp has unicode support. fooapp has optional support for the utf-8 |
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>encoding which pulls in an additional dependency. |
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mysql-4.1 should use "utf8" , in fact it can be used to change the |
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defaults at compile time (econf) and at run-time (my.cfg) . |
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This is also a compatibility option versus 4.0 series. |
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Right ? |
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