Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

[Joseph]

On 05/25/14 23:00, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>On 05/25/2014 10:43 PM, Joseph wrote:
>>>
>>> What about the output of "show create database $your_database;"?
>>> Depending on how the database was created, it could still have another
>>> character set.
>>
>> I was trying to run this command in phpmyadmin:
>> show create database $temp;
>>
>> I'm getting an error message.
>>
>
>Oh, lose the dollar sign. It's common to prepend a dollar sign to a name
>to signify that it's a variable. It borrows from shell, perl, PHP, etc.
>which all do something similar for variables. It's ugly and redundant
>there, but email is actually one place where I think it makes sense.

Yes, it worked, and I get:
CREATE DATABASE `catalog_sys` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */

so it looks OK I think.

-- 
Joseph