Ok, thanks David for your help,
now to change a character set in mysql do you have to recomplie it even
though the char set i want to use is in the /usr/local/share/mysql/charsets
directory?
-----Original Message-----
From: David Robley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:00 PM
To: Peter Houchin; Php-General@Lists. Php. Net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Help please
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:18, Peter Houchin wrote:
> Hi,
> when i try and access my database from a web page i get this error
>
> MySQL Connection Failed: Can't initialize character set 12 (path:
> default)
>
> can some one please help me out with the "Can't initialize character
> set 12 (path: defualt) cuz i don't understand what it means by the
> character set 12 since the line it mentions is a simple mysql_connect()
> ...
>
> if any one could shed any light on this it would be great
>
> thanks
>
> Peter Houchin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out this link - may be the answer you are looking for.
http://http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/mysql/doc/C/a/Cannot_initialize_chara
cter_set.html
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