From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEWhJ-0005vW-Gw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:37:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8BIVhAo001080; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:31:43 GMT Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it (85-18-21-122.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.21.122]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8BISsEl003916 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:28:54 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E877AD6FB for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:33:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (db [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21828-03 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:33:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.4.153] (host-4-153.pnpitalia.it [192.168.4.153]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC277AD6F8 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:33:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4324780C.6090100@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:31:40 +0200 From: Francesco R User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade References: <43201B96.7050209@gentoo.org> <43246D71.90103@gentoo.org> <20050911191928.386843ff@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20050911191928.386843ff@snowdrop.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at db X-Archives-Salt: 871d8974-d3f7-4e77-8982-6360c42ee158 X-Archives-Hash: da118190bdffb23a6b393a804c05c7b8 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:46:25 +0200 Francesco R wrote: >| > 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. > >Bleh. A USE flag for a configuration file setting? Just install with >sane defaults and let the sysadmin change it if necessary... > > > Agree, all toghether please say that it should be defaulted to "utf8" also if the previous default was latin1. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list