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FS#2498 - Mysql default collation

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Roberto Braga (Bobonov) - Monday, 04 April 2005, 23:26 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Actually no collation is set during mysqld startup.
So it start with the default collation that is latin1_swedish_ci, that surely make happy people from sweden but make trouble for the resto the world. It make problems in particoulary when importing data, it loose all accent and special chars.
It is easy to solve the problem by adding the followings two lines at the startup script.
--default-character-set=utf8
--default-collation=utf8_unicode_ci
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Thursday, 07 April 2005, 20:30 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  I've set the default charset to latin1 for now, with other sets included for people that wish to use them.
Comment by Roberto Braga (Bobonov) - Tuesday, 05 April 2005, 05:51 GMT
It can be done also at compile time. I this way there is no need to change the startup, so you can change this by the next mysql release

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