Hi Johannes and Ulf:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:56:00PM -0500, Daniel Convissor wrote:
> Hi Johannes:
>
> > We have to live with the information the server gives us. The server
> > gives us the information in bytes. And frankly in PHP a string has no
> > encoding information, so in many cases that is a good answer. But
> > nonetheless the documentation should be improved/fixed.
>
> Further experimenting reveals that libmysql has the same behavior of
> multiplying the length of string fields by 3 when the character set is
> set to "utf8".
>
> A related problem was found by the test script. libmysql is completely
> ignoring the character set information in my.cnf. Plus, if one forces a
> character set by calling options(SET NAMES utf8) before connecting,
> character_set_name() still returns unexpected information.
>
> Can you please take a look at this test script:
> http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/php/libmysql.ignoring.character.set.php
Can one of you please examine why libmysql is not acting as documented
and reply here in the near future?
Thanks,
--Dan
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