First of all, Sadahiro, I am very grateful for your excellent work in fixing these Unicode in EBCDIC cases. Secondly I am very sorry for not thinking of disabling the IS_UTF8_CHAR() (which I recently introduced) in EBCDIC.
Thirdly, are we getting close to a set of patches that Rafael Garcia-Suarez could integrate to 5.9.x, and Nicholas Clark from there backport to 5.8.x? I must admit that I am a bit lost in the jungle of the different patches...
