Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44118&edit=1
ID: 44118
Updated by: johan...@php.net
Reported by: slava_reg at nsys dot by
Summary: [PATCH] MySQL: Set connection charset via php.ini
option
-Status: Assigned
+Status: Wont fix
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: MySQL related
Operating System: any
PHP Version: 5.2.5
Assigned To: mysql
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
The application has to know the encoding being used, else some strange
things might happen. We have seen the trouble in having this globally
configurable when Gentoo decided to use Utf-8 for their MySQL
installations by default instead of MySQL's default. I doubt you can
make an application Utf-8 comaptible by just setting such a low-level
switch (it won't affect the HTTP Content-type header or HTML forms, thus
receiving data in a wrong encoding from the user, not re-encode it etc.)
Previous Comments:
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[2011-01-06 16:19:52] u...@php.net
Not sure if this is really needed. It can be done in user land. Its a
bit of a convenience feature. Not many votes for it... Andrey,
Johannes...?
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[2008-02-14 13:00:54] slava_reg at nsys dot by
Description:
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Hi,
As I'm tired of patching various user-installed php-engines to work
correctly with newer MySQL versions (4.1.x +) that require connection
character set to be specified, I decided to solve the problem at the php
level.
So, I patched both mysql and mysqli extensions (based on an idea found
somewhere in internet).
Result is available at:
http://bubble.nsys.by/projects/patches/php/php-5.2.5-mysql-client-charset.patch
The patch introduces two more php.ini directives:
mysql.client_charset and
mysqli.client_charset
As those directives are optional, the patch shouldn't break any existing
functionality, but it could *really* help users who's native language is
not latin and who want to use some php-scripted engine with mysql
'out-of-the-box'.
Best,
Vladislav Bogdanov
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