> Only single-byte character sets with simple sorting rules can be
> described by the *.conf files. More complex character sets must
> be compiled into the server.
>
> The binaries that MySQL distributes have all supported character
> sets included. You can see what character sets are available
> with this command:
>
> mysql> show variables like 'character_sets';
>
> You should notice ujis and sjis there, if you are using one of our
> binaries.
> When you start mysqld, you use the --default-character-set=ujis
> option to change the character set being used. Our binaries use
> latin1 by default. With the configuration line from above, the
> default would be sjis, but you could specify ujis, gbk, or any
> of the simple character sets in share/charsets/*.conf.
I installed MySQL from an RPM file on Linux. When I use the mysql>show
variables like 'character_sets'; as you mentioned above, I do, indeed, show
sjis. So, I shutdown mysql and restarted it like this:
safe_mysqld --default-character-set=sjis
This resulted in an error message (sorry I forgot the one however something
it to do with missing charsets I believe). I had a look around and I noticed
the following charsets in /usr/share/mysql/charsets:
./ croat.conf* greek.conf* latin1.conf* win1251.conf*
../ danish.conf* hebrew.conf* latin2.conf*
win1251ukr.conf*
Index* dec8.conf* hp8.conf* latin5.conf*
README* dos.conf* hungarian.conf* swe7.conf*
cp1251.conf* estonia.conf* koi8_ru.conf* usa7.conf*
cp1257.conf* german1.conf* koi8_ukr.conf* win1250.conf*
Alas, no sjis, but I imagine that is because it a double-byte character set.
So, I'm left with the following question:
1. What do you mean by
>More complex character sets must
> be compiled into the server.
And how would I go about doing this?
TIA
Anatole
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