On 11/11/2017 01:13, Patrick M. Galbraith wrote: > Greetings all! > > Michiel and I have been talking, weighing options of what course to take in > dealing with moving forward-- with the goal of both offering both stability > and the choice to have the latest functionality and bug fixes as well as > give contributors the opportunity to be part of overall improvements to the > driver. > > What we are going to do is: > > Add to the connection the ability to turn on proper UTF handling with > 'mysql_enable_proper_unicode'. This gives the user volition the option to > knowingly > toggle whether they want the new functionality and understand that > data structures returned or accepted by the driver might be different > than without this setting. > > The other options had their merits, but we think this will solve the issue > while keeping the driver unified and prevent divergence. > > Thank you for your input over the last couple months-- we look forward to > moving ahead! > > Patrick and Michiel
Given that things are only ever going to move forward with my/maria-sql would it not be better to enable this by default, and have a "disable" setting for those who want to run something of antiques? Because in years to come there will only ever be the modern versions and you;ll have to change default behaviour then anyway, but since that time is mostly here now, it makes more sense to enable it by default. -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. You may not disseminate, discuss, or reveal, any part, to anyone, without the authors express written authority to do so. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender then delete all copies of this message including attachments, immediately. Confidentiality, copyright, and legal privilege are not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery of this message. Only PDF [1] and ODF [2] documents accepted, please do not send proprietary formatted documents Links: ------ [1] http://www.adobe.com/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument