Taavi Tiirik asked: > Thanks. Let me put it this way then... There are character set configuration > files in mysql/share/charsets directory of binary distribution of mysql. If > these > files cannot be used for defining new character sets then what is their > purpose?
These files are used for character classification. See section 4.6.4 of the manual. If you know C, then you might think of these as the tables that the ctype library would use. You need these tables when you re-compile, and you don't want to change the tables that are there (or you could find your sorts doing weird things). > Can they be used for modifying existing character sets? As in copying an existing file for a language close to the language you are adding, changing the name of the copy, and changing a few values in the copy for the characters that are different? I think that would work for 8-bit character sets. Try it and see. The manual says you must re-compile to get the new character set recognized. Joel Rees Alps Giken Kansai Systems Develoment Suita, Osaka --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
