Bug#438970: [debian-mysql] Bug#438970: Bug#438970: UTF8 default charcterset for mysql-server package

2007-12-05 Thread Christian Hammers
On 2007-12-05 Cristóbal Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:18:38PM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > > I've read the whole bugreport a few times now, and I think I have to > > agree with Sean, we should switch the default charset for new databases > > to utf8, but shouldn't touch existin

Bug#438970: [debian-mysql] Bug#438970: UTF8 default charcterset for mysql-server package

2007-12-05 Thread Cristóbal Palmer
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:18:38PM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > I've read the whole bugreport a few times now, and I think I have to > agree with Sean, we should switch the default charset for new databases > to utf8, but shouldn't touch existing ones. Agreed. I think the easiest way to acco

Bug#438970: [debian-mysql] Bug#438970: UTF8 default charcterset for mysql-server package

2007-12-04 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
Hi, I've read the whole bugreport a few times now, and I think I have to agree with Sean, we should switch the default charset for new databases to utf8, but shouldn't touch existing ones. Maybe I just don't see the real reason why MySQL decided to not use utf8 as default charset, I'll ask on the

Bug#438970: UTF8 default charcterset for mysql-server package

2007-12-04 Thread Cristóbal Palmer
Hi, Cristóbal with ibiblio.org here. We recently handed off DocSouth (http://docsouth.unc.edu/) from our servers to UNC libraries'. Because of such changes and growth, we've been repeatedly exposed to encoding problems such as the one the original reporter describes. UNC Library systems has manage

Bug#438970: [debian-mysql] Bug#438970: UTF8 default charcterset for mysql-server package

2007-08-21 Thread sean finney
reopen 438970 thanks hey guys, guess i missed the bug and initial discussion, i must have been automatically unsubscribed from pkg-mysql-maint when my mail server went down a few weeks ago. anyway, first things first, i'm reopening the bug since even if it will never be implemented it would b

Bug#438970: UTF8 default charcterset for mysql-server package

2007-08-20 Thread Johan Ramm-Ericson
Package: mysql-server Version: 5.0.32-7etch1 The default character set for the mysql-server package is currently latin1. See the server status notice after installing the package: *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* mysql> status; -- mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.38, for