Re: PATCH - Charset in ext/mysql
| From: | Georg Richter | Date: | Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:13:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PATCH - Charset in ext/mysql | ||
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Am Do, den 06.07.2006 schrieb Olivier Hill um 18:01:
> I am aware that this is a bugfix only branch, but for us this was a
> bug. We were moving to new servers compiled against MySQL 4.1 libs and
> not the bundled ones with PHP. With this move, things got from latin1
> to utf8 and since PHP 4 doesn't really care about Unicode, we had to
> come up with this fix. Looking at the comments in the docs on php.net,
> we were not the only one with this problem. [1]
"Official" MySQL binaries have latin1 character set by default, not
utf8. Afaik only gentoo distribution delivers packages with default
utf8.
/Georg