Em Terça-feira 24 Março 2009, às 08:32:34, Pierre Schmitz escreveu: > Am Dienstag, 24. März 2009 12:28:25 schrieb Douglas Soares de Andrade: > > Hi guys, > > > > Finnaly i took some time and updated mysql to testing. I did almost all > > the needed rebuilds - i did not rebuilt dovecot as it needs the new > > libpcap, can someone build it for me ? - Im also uploading > > mysql-gui-tools 5.0r14 for my public page. > > > > Thanks all =) > > Just a little question about this. You compiled with "--with-charset=latin1 > -- with-collation=latin1_general_ci" Is there a reason for doing so? I > wonder if utf8 might be better but I am not sure if that would break > compatibility.
Hi Pierre, Sometime ago, when i started to work in the mysql update, i was going to use utf8, but, talking to Jan, he pointed some cases where this could break existing databases, so i had to maintain latin-1 as the default encoding.
