Hello Bernd On 2005-08-06 Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > after installing the server, the default charset is latin1 (which is more or > less ok on a lot of systems, however I think it should be a debconf > question). For example latin9 or utf8 are often requested, too. No, I would consider this as abuse of Debconf; when I start asking the default locale, 100 other equally important things come to my mind and I would have to start deciding which ones to ask and which not :) Things like "should the server be started" or "should the db be purged after removing" which are needed by the Debian scripts are proper things to ask via Debconf only.
> I also think that latin1_swedish_ci is a pretty bad default colaltion for > latin1. I would sugegst to use the bin collation or always ask for it. Collation is the definition in which order to sort characters, right? What's the difference between the both and which are the relevant config options? > I think the collation is not so critical, since it can be changed, but for > the charset a question before the DB is created is usefull. Try "ALTER TABLE xyz CHARSET utf8;"? bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
