Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>On Tue, 3 May 2005 14:21:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>| as many know, i dont use unicode, so i'm a bit ignorant of it ...
>|
>| is there a good reason for having both a global 'unicode' USE flag and
>| a bunch of local 'utf8' USE flags ? or should i file bugs for people
>| to stop using 'utf8' and use 'unicode' instead ?
>
>utf8 is a particular way of encoding unicode. I'd say that the 'unicode'
>flag would be sufficient, except if for some reason the following
>bizarre setup were to occur:
>
>fooapp has unicode support. fooapp has optional support for the utf-8
>encoding which pulls in an additional dependency.
>
>
>
mysql-4.1 should use "utf8" , in fact it can be used to change the
defaults at compile time (econf) and at run-time (my.cfg) .
This is also a compatibility option versus 4.0 series.
Right ?
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