Re: Character set support for MySQL et al

2006-03-09 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Geert Vanderkelen wrote: >Since this is probably going to be needed for all DBMS out there, >what about a DATABASE_ENCODING setting which will set the character >set for the connection? > > There is already a ticket with such thing: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/952 (even with a pta

Character set support for MySQL et al

2006-03-08 Thread Geert Vanderkelen
Hi! I just submitted a patch for alternate unix_socket for MySQL (ticket#1481) but going through it, I noticed SET NAMES 'utf8' (with quotes see ticket #1482 ;) ), but this might be a problem for people using a MySQL server or database using default Chinese for example or other encodings.