> > > BTW, what's wrong with "encoding"? I don't think, for example EUC-JP
> > > or utf-8, are character set names.
> >
> > Hmm, SQL talks of character sets, it has a CHARACTER_SETS view and such.
> > It's slightly incorrect, I agree.
> >
> > Maybe we should not touch getdatabaseencoding() right now, given that the
> > names we currently use are apparently almost correct anyway and
> > considering the pain it creates to alter them, and instead implement the
> > information schema views in the future?
>
> I thought schema stuffs would be introduced in 7.2 but apparently it
> would not happen...
I thought I could do it but ran out of time.
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