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Doc Bug #41168 Default Charset problem for MySQL
Submitted: 2007-04-23 03:12 UTC Modified: 2007-04-23 07:06 UTC
From: roleroz at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Gentoo Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-04-23 03:12 UTC] roleroz at gmail dot com 
Description:
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At the documentation it says that the default charset for mysql is latin, but in my system that doesn't seem to be right.

After checking lots of posibilities, i set the mysql.connect_charset variable, at php.ini, to latin1, and my code finally worked

It seems that the default charset for mysql functions in php 5.2.1 running over apache2 it's utf8

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 [2007-04-23 03:29 UTC] ljbuesch at purdue dot edu 
From the MySQL manual (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-syntax.html):
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By default, MySQL uses the latin1 (cp1252 West European) character set and the latin1_swedish_ci collation that sorts according to Swedish/Finnish rules. These defaults are suitable for the United States and most of Western Europe.
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Your system must be compiled to not use latin1, but it is in no way a PHP documentation problem.
 [2007-04-23 07:06 UTC] derick@php.net 
File a report with the Gentoo maintainers for doing something not standard (again).
 
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