Hi all,
I'm fairly new to character sets and I'm trying to get a better understanding of how mysql deals with them. I hope someone out there can shed some light on a behavior that I am seeing. We're using mysql 4.1.12 with clustered tables. I have a table with a varchar and a text field where the table has been defined to use : ENGINE=ndbcluster DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 Now, through my php user interface, I find that I can update/insert Korean characters into the database table and successfully retrieve them from the database. I'm using microsoft's Korean input system (ms-ime2002) So, I'm wondering how can this be? If the charset is using latin1, then I would expect that I am using 1 byte for storage but the Korean character sets would need 2. - am I just getting lucky and not using the characters that require 2 bytes ? - is there something special about clustered tables in that it treats all char data as utf8 charsets ? - is my test invalid in that the Microsoft encoding for the Korean characters only needs 1 byte ? Thanks for any replies, Yong.
