Jason Wever wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Francesco R wrote: > > >> Please notice that MySQL-5.0 has been erroneously unmasked for few > hours > >> but it will return under the package.mask cover at next rsync. > >> > >> The MySQL herd is pleased to announce that Mysql 4.1 has been unmasked > >> today and is now marked unstable. > > > Is there any particular reason that the utf8 use flag was > re-introduced rather than using the unicode use flag like everything > else does (and was standardized on)?
Because it does not "Adds support for Unicode" but "switch default to utf8 character set" in MySQL config file, it's not possible to deactivate support for unicode in 4.1 version. > > Regards, > -- Jason Wever > Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
