Description:
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Hello,

now after 2 years, the same bug as in Bug #32557 still exists (and setting this to bogus in #32557 is just a bad joke. Maybe it is a "Won't fix", because you wont do the job).

The problem is just the very, very old MySQL-Client (3.23.49), which is used for compiling the MySQL extension in PHP4/Win.

And in PHP4/Win the extension is compiled in, and not a shared extension, so we (a Windows user) can't use an other (newer) extension in an easy way.

BTW:
In conclusion this sentence in the PHP-Manual [1] is not true for PHP4/Win:
> Although this MySQL extension is compatible with MySQL 4.1.0
> and greater. 

Regards,
Carsten

[1] http://de.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php#mysql.installation


Reproduce code:
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MySQL standard setup with:
default-character-set = utf8

<?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '');
if (!$link) {
    die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
echo 'Connected successfully';
mysql_close($link);
?>


Expected result:
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| D:\PHP>php test.php
| Connected successfully
| D:\PHP>


Actual result:
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| D:\PHP>php test.php
| File 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\?.conf' not found (Errcode: 2)
| Character set '#33' is not a compiled character set and is not \
| specified in the 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\Index' file
| Connected successfully
| D:\PHP>