PHP 4.0 Bug #8766: couldn't connect to MySQL server which has default character set cp1251

From: crazy50s@yahoo.com Operating system: FreeBSD 3.3 PHP version: 4.0 Latest CVS (17/01/2001) PHP Bug Type: MySQL related Bug description: couldn't connect to MySQL server which has default character set cp1251 FreeBSD 3.3 -RELEASE Apache/1.3.14 PHP 4.0.5-dev compiled as DSO --with-mysql --with-apxs MYSQL 3.23.30 compiled with --default-character-set = cp1251 (this is charset #14 in /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/charsets/Index) have no problem connecting to it from mysql/mysqladmin clients when trying to mysql_connect() from PHP script, got this error message ...MySQL Connection Failed: Can't initialize character set 14 (path: default).... installing PHP 4.0.3pl1 solved the problem :) check out this URL http://x63.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=714791711&CONTEXT=979753585.1563033636&hitnum=8 for description of this bug (or maybe feature) by another user I find it amusing that 4.0.4 and 4.0.4pl1 do not work because of bug #8738... and 4.0.5-dev (CVS snapshot) doesn't work either because of this. thanks -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8766&edit=1