severity 407564 wishlist
tags 407564 + wontfix
stop

Hello Christoph

> mysql-server5.0 fails to work out of the box. Instead it uses latin1,
> something I'm not using on my system. Adding
> "default-character-set=utf8" to [mysql] in /etc/mysql/my.cnf solves
> this problem.  I don't know where mysql takes it's default character
> set from, if it is not specified, but the debian package should
> respect it's user's settings.

The default character set is compiled in and won't be changed for
reasons of backward-compatibility with existing installations.

At the current point of time in our release cycle I will also not
change something in the default my.cnf that is shipped with mysql.
Probably the default will change to utf8 with MySQL-5.1.

BTW: When changing the defaults you will probably also want to put the
above mentioned option into the "[mysqld]" block so that it becomes
default for both, clients and the server.

bye,

-christian-





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