#49363 [NEW]: Missing information

From: admin at mysqldumper dot de Operating system: Win XP PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Translation problem Bug description: Missing information Description: ------------ The manual states: "Note: This is the preferred way to change the charset. Using mysql_query() to execute SET NAMES .. is not recommended. " I am missing any technical explanation here why this is recommended. Sending "SET NAMES 'charset'" via mysql_query() always worked fine on many different servers for me. So I want to know more detailed what is the disadvantage and what is the advantage using mysql-set-charset(). Funnily the German translation page of mysql_set_charset has some incorrectly encoded German umlauts on the page. e.x.: "Setzt den Standardzeichensatz für die angegebene Verbindung. " instead of "Setzt den Standardzeichensatz für die angegebene Verbindung." Reproduce code: --------------- --- From manual page: function.mysql-set-charset --- -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49363&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49363&r=mysqlcfg