RE: [PHP] Help please

Ok, thanks David for your help, now to change a character set in mysql do you have to recomplie it even though the char set i want to use is in the /usr/local/share/mysql/charsets directory? -----Original Message----- From: David Robley [mailto:huntsman@flinders.edu.au] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:00 PM To: Peter Houchin; Php-General@Lists. Php. Net Subject: Re: [PHP] Help please On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:18, Peter Houchin wrote: > Hi, > when i try and access my database from a web page i get this error > > MySQL Connection Failed: Can't initialize character set 12 (path: > default) > > can some one please help me out with the "Can't initialize character > set 12 (path: defualt) cuz i don't understand what it means by the > character set 12 since the line it mentions is a simple mysql_connect() > ... > > if any one could shed any light on this it would be great > > thanks > > Peter Houchin > peterh@sunrentals.com.au Check out this link - may be the answer you are looking for. http://http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/mysql/doc/C/a/Cannot_initialize_chara cter_set.html -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA