Re: [PHP-DB] Where does the mysqli extension find the default connection charset?
Hello and thanks for your help, However, my question was: *how* is it package dependent? You said that it uses libmysql. In this case, which file controls the configuration of libmysql? Or is it at compilation time that the choice is made? I know that to be of the safe side, I should explicitly set the character set. Jean-Noel On 5/2/07, Georg Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote: > Hello there, > > I'd like to know which configuration file or setting is used by PHP mysqli > extension to know the default charset connection to the database. mysqli (and also mysql) extension uses the default character set for libmysql This can be package dependend: Several distros deliver utf8 as default, others latin1. To be on the safe side, you should call mysqli_set_charset($link, "utf8/latin1/whatever) to set the character set for each connection. /Georg -- Georg Richter, Development Manager - Connectors & Client Connectivity MySQL GmbH, Radlkoferstr. 2, D-81373 München, www.mysql.com Geschäftsführer: Hans von Bell, Kaj Arnö - HRB München 162140
[PHP-DB] Where does the mysqli extension find the default connection charset?
Hello there, I'd like to know which configuration file or setting is used by PHP mysqli extension to know the default charset connection to the database. I have two boxes with MySQL 5 / PHP 5 on them. One is a Gentoo box, and on this one by default the connection happens in UTF-8. The other server is a Mac OS X box and it uses latin-1 by default (forcing me to switch manually). I thought the information would be in /etc/my.cnf (in the client charset line), but this file is on OS X and it does not work. The only thing I could see that PHP is using is some locale settings, because on Gentoo locale prints LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= whereas on OS X locale prints: LANG= LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_ALL="C" So could anyone experienced in the mysqli extension can help me so that I can set the default charset for the connection to be utf-8 on my OS X box? Thanks Jean-Noël
