Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44118&edit=1
ID: 44118
Comment by: cavo at ynet dot sk
Reported by: slava_reg at nsys dot by
Summary: [PATCH] MySQL: Set connection charset via php.ini
option
Status: Wont fix
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: MySQL related
Operating System: any
PHP Version: 5.2.5
Assigned To: mysql
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
This is not about making application utf8 compatible. You can do this by
"set names" query. But it may be redundant. For example: All my database
is in utf8 encoding. All my pages have content-type utf8. All form posts
from clients are in utf8. All strings I process in application are utf8.
But what do I need to do right after I connect to database? - "set names
utf8;" Why? Because if I don't, db will re-encode all strings to latin1.
And PHP don't care. If I have 100 new connections to db per second, I
need to 100 times run that query. Why if client and server could
negotiate encoding in those 2 obliged packets? (
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54086 ). It's ok to set latin1 as default
character set used by client to not affect existing applications (I
believe mostly for those, who actualy don't know, what are they
doing..). But I think it's very useful to have option to set encoding
manualy via configuration option or in connect functions like:
mysql_connect('localhost', 'user', 'pwd', true,
MYSQL_CLIENT_ENCODING_UTF8);
Or am I somwhere wrong?
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_ClientServer_Protocol#Client_Authentication_Packet
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/server-options.html#option_mysqld_default-character-set
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/server-options.html#option_mysqld_character-set-client-handshake
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54086
Previous Comments:
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[2011-01-31 11:52:36] johan...@php.net
The application has to know the encoding being used, else some strange
things might happen. We have seen the trouble in having this globally
configurable when Gentoo decided to use Utf-8 for their MySQL
installations by default instead of MySQL's default. I doubt you can
make an application Utf-8 comaptible by just setting such a low-level
switch (it won't affect the HTTP Content-type header or HTML forms, thus
receiving data in a wrong encoding from the user, not re-encode it etc.)
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[2011-01-06 16:19:52] u...@php.net
Not sure if this is really needed. It can be done in user land. Its a
bit of a convenience feature. Not many votes for it... Andrey,
Johannes...?
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[2008-02-14 13:00:54] slava_reg at nsys dot by
Description:
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Hi,
As I'm tired of patching various user-installed php-engines to work
correctly with newer MySQL versions (4.1.x +) that require connection
character set to be specified, I decided to solve the problem at the php
level.
So, I patched both mysql and mysqli extensions (based on an idea found
somewhere in internet).
Result is available at:
http://bubble.nsys.by/projects/patches/php/php-5.2.5-mysql-client-charset.patch
The patch introduces two more php.ini directives:
mysql.client_charset and
mysqli.client_charset
As those directives are optional, the patch shouldn't break any existing
functionality, but it could *really* help users who's native language is
not latin and who want to use some php-scripted engine with mysql
'out-of-the-box'.
Best,
Vladislav Bogdanov
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