Re: Need Japanese character set files
On 2001 Jun 06, Anatole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I brought down mysqld and restarted as before with safe_mysqld --default-character-set=sjis and get the following error message when php tries to connect: Can't initialize character set 13 (path: default) in /usr/local/apache/sites/gaijinpot.com/php/common.inc Ah, the vital clue. You're using PHP, and probably used the mysql that is bundled with PHP (an older version, too), and not an external MySQL library. The PHP version only comes with the latin1 character set. What you need to do is configure PHP using their --with-mysql=/path/to/your/mysql option, and make and install the new PHP. Yes, this is kind of a pain, but that's how it goes. If you have trouble with this process, a PHP list is probably the best place to get help. Oh, you might be able to get around this by just using the most recent version of PHP. We added a hack to ignore the error you are getting, since the client doesn't have to do much with the character sets. But I'm not sure if it will work when the server is using a multi-byte character set - it might just break. The way to be sure that things work is to follow my instructions above. If you just upgrade your PHP, and things don't work, let me know the error you get so maybe I can find a work-around. Tim -- __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Tim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, Development Team /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Boone, NC USA ___/ www.mysql.com - 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
Re: Need Japanese character set files
On 2001 Jun 04, Narendra Phadke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am storing Japanese data inside MySQL. MySQL supports all the Europian languages and other languages like korian and Hebru, and you have all the character set files for all these languages inside the C:\mysql\share\charsets directory. But this directory does not contain Japanese character set files. Where can I get these files? 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. If you compile MySQL yourself, you must specify the character sets you want when you run 'configure', like this: sh configure --with-charset=sjis --with-extra-charsets=ujis,gbk 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. Tim -- __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Tim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, Development Team /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Boone, NC USA ___/ www.mysql.com - 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
Re: Need Japanese character set files
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 mysqlshow 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 - 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
Re: Need Japanese character set files
On 2001 Jun 06, Anatole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed MySQL from an RPM file on Linux. When I use the mysqlshow variables like 'character_sets'; as you mentioned above, I do, indeed, show sjis. This means that the sjis character set is compiled into the server already, so you do not need to recompile MySQL in order to use the sjis character set. 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 would need to know the error message in order to guess what is going wrong. I had a look around and I noticed the following charsets in /usr/share/mysql/charsets: cut Alas, no sjis, but I imagine that is because it a double-byte character set. Yes. If you had the source distribution, you would see the file called strings/ctype-sjis.c, which contains the code needed to handle the sjis 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. In order to use the more complex character sets, such as sjis, extra code must be linked into the mysqld binary. When we build our binary distributions, we do link in the extra code for all of the more complex character sets. And how would I go about doing this? You do not need to do this, since you are using a standard binary that already includes all of the more complex character sets. Tim -- __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Tim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, Development Team /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Boone, NC USA ___/ www.mysql.com - 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
Re: Need Japanese character set files
Hi Tim, Thanks for taking the time to write. You answered many questions that I haven't been able to figure out so far about character sets. The only thing I have left is... This resulted in an error message (sorry I forgot the one however something it to do with missing charsets I believe). I would need to know the error message in order to guess what is going wrong. I brought down mysqld and restarted as before with safe_mysqld --default-character-set=sjis and get the following error message when php tries to connect: Can't initialize character set 13 (path: default) in /usr/local/apache/sites/gaijinpot.com/php/common.inc Thanks again for your help! Anatole - 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
