On 5/2/09, Galevsky <galev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well.... can someone tell me if a utf-8 gentoo box shoud have the file > /usr/share/mysql/charsets/utf-8.xml ?
AFAICT no and AFAICT nor should any other MySQL instance on any platform. According to sql/share/charsets/README those files are only for simple charsets, e.g., with single-byte characters. UTF-8 is multi-byte and thus should be compiled in the strings library. -- Arttu V.
