ID: 45921
User updated by: ymagriso at gmail dot com
Reported By: ymagriso at gmail dot com
-Status: Feedback
+Status: Open
Bug Type: MySQLi related
Operating System: Windows XP/SP3
PHP Version: 5.2.6
New Comment:
As I stated in the original message the SET NAMES actually works fine
as a workaround (no error and the character set is changed to
"hebrew").
As for the list of available character sets:
mysql> show character set;
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
| Charset | Description | Default collation | Maxlen
|
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
| big5 | Big5 Traditional Chinese | big5_chinese_ci | 2
|
| dec8 | DEC West European | dec8_swedish_ci | 1
|
| cp850 | DOS West European | cp850_general_ci | 1
|
| hp8 | HP West European | hp8_english_ci | 1
|
| koi8r | KOI8-R Relcom Russian | koi8r_general_ci | 1
|
| latin1 | cp1252 West European | latin1_swedish_ci | 1
|
| latin2 | ISO 8859-2 Central European | latin2_general_ci | 1
|
| swe7 | 7bit Swedish | swe7_swedish_ci | 1
|
| ascii | US ASCII | ascii_general_ci | 1
|
| ujis | EUC-JP Japanese | ujis_japanese_ci | 3
|
| sjis | Shift-JIS Japanese | sjis_japanese_ci | 2
|
| hebrew | ISO 8859-8 Hebrew | hebrew_general_ci | 1
|
| tis620 | TIS620 Thai | tis620_thai_ci | 1
|
| euckr | EUC-KR Korean | euckr_korean_ci | 2
|
| koi8u | KOI8-U Ukrainian | koi8u_general_ci | 1
|
| gb2312 | GB2312 Simplified Chinese | gb2312_chinese_ci | 2
|
| greek | ISO 8859-7 Greek | greek_general_ci | 1
|
| cp1250 | Windows Central European | cp1250_general_ci | 1
|
| gbk | GBK Simplified Chinese | gbk_chinese_ci | 2
|
| latin5 | ISO 8859-9 Turkish | latin5_turkish_ci | 1
|
| armscii8 | ARMSCII-8 Armenian | armscii8_general_ci | 1
|
| utf8 | UTF-8 Unicode | utf8_general_ci | 3
|
| ucs2 | UCS-2 Unicode | ucs2_general_ci | 2
|
| cp866 | DOS Russian | cp866_general_ci | 1
|
| keybcs2 | DOS Kamenicky Czech-Slovak | keybcs2_general_ci | 1
|
| macce | Mac Central European | macce_general_ci | 1
|
| macroman | Mac West European | macroman_general_ci | 1
|
| cp852 | DOS Central European | cp852_general_ci | 1
|
| latin7 | ISO 8859-13 Baltic | latin7_general_ci | 1
|
| cp1251 | Windows Cyrillic | cp1251_general_ci | 1
|
| cp1256 | Windows Arabic | cp1256_general_ci | 1
|
| cp1257 | Windows Baltic | cp1257_general_ci | 1
|
| binary | Binary pseudo charset | binary | 1
|
| geostd8 | GEOSTD8 Georgian | geostd8_general_ci | 1
|
| cp932 | SJIS for Windows Japanese | cp932_japanese_ci | 2
|
| eucjpms | UJIS for Windows Japanese | eucjpms_japanese_ci | 3
|
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
36 rows in set (0.05 sec)
mysql>
The character set "hebrew" is there.
As for your last request, the "my.ini" does not include any statement
regarding the "character_sets_dir".
Adding it as advised in MySQL documentation does not help in this case.
Previous Comments:
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[2008-08-28 21:25:12] jani@php.net
IIRC, the SET NAMES doesn't actually do anything with Mysql 5.0 on
client side..I might be wrong though. :)
Check that you really have it, run this in the mysql client:
mysql> SHOW CHARACTER SET;
And check your mysql config (my.cnf or whatever it's called in win32)
that it has the proper path for the charsets. It should be in [mysql]
section. (mysql manual might help? :)
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[2008-08-28 18:37:15] ymagriso at gmail dot com
I un-installed PHP, downloaded the PHP installer again from another
mirror and installed again.
However, the version of the client was still 5.0.51a (and I am still
encountering the same problem).
Please, advise whether I am missing something.
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[2008-08-27 08:07:34] ymagriso at gmail dot com
You are right.
phpinfo() shows the following in MySQLi section:
MysqlI Support enabled
Client API library version 5.0.51a
Client API header version 5.0.51a
MYSQLI_SOCKET /tmp/mysql.sock
However, I downloaded the library along with the PHP installer from the
following location:
http://il2.php.net/get/php-5.2.6-win32-installer.msi/from/a/mirror
I will try to download it again, re-install and then check whether the
version was updated.
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[2008-08-26 22:29:37] jani@php.net
Do you by any chance have two different mysql versions installed?
What does phpinfo() have to say in the MySQLi section about which
client lib version is used..?
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[2008-08-26 12:01:30] ymagriso at gmail dot com
Description:
------------
I have Apache 2.2.9/PHP 5.2.6 and MySQL 5.0.67 installed on Windows
XP/SP3.
Apache is installed in the following path: "C:\Apache2.2".
PHP is installed in the following path: "C:\PHP5".
MySQL is installed in the following path: "C:\MySQL5.0".
I am running the PHP script below and getting the error specified
below. I could not find anywhere in the documentation how to
troubleshoot this error.
Note, that when I connect with mysql as a client and check the
"character_sets_dir" it shows the correct one:
mysql> show variables like "%character%";
+--------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+-----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | C:\MySQL5.0\share\charsets\ |
+--------------------------+-----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql>
Therefore, I assume that the problem is not related to MySQL
configuration, but to "MySQLi". However, the documentation does not show
how to change the "character_sets_dir" for MySQLi.
(Also, the documentation advises:
"Note: This is the preferred way to change the charset. Using
mysqli::query() to execute SET NAMES .. is not reccomended."
However, SET NAMES works fine as a workaround to the problem.)
Reproduce code:
---------------
$db = new mysqli('host', 'username', 'password',
'database');
if(mysqli_connect_errno())
{
printf("Error: could not connect to database! Please try again
later.\n");
return;
}
if(!$db->set_charset("hebrew"))
{
printf("Error: could not load character set hebrew - %s\n",
$db->error);
}
Expected result:
----------------
Character set of DB is changed to "hebrew" (and no error is shown).
Actual result:
--------------
I am getting the following error message:
"Error: could not load character set hebrew - Can't initialize
character set hebrew (path: C:\mysql\\share\charsets\)"
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