Ahhhh bitrot. We’ll see if Debian moves on this or not:
On 2006-09-04 tech@mediaforest.net wrote:
> I really don’t understand why latin1_swedish_ci is used as default instead of
> latin1_general_ci which is “general” as its name says…
Backwards compatibility with older mysql versions.
I just finished giving a demo for a database class, and I was very happy to do this as soon as I was done:
root@kant:~# dpkg -P oracle-xe-universal
(Reading database … 121041 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing oracle-xe-universal …
Purging configuration files for oracle-xe-universal …
root@kant:~#
When it works, it seems to work fairly well, but there were FAR too [...]
Yaaaay!
Hi,
I’ve read the whole bugreport a few times now, and I think I have to
agree with Sean, we should switch the default charset for new databases
to utf8, but shouldn’t touch existing ones.
Maybe I just don’t see the real reason why MySQL decided to not use utf8
as default charset, I’ll ask on the MySQL packagers list [...]
