Re: cannot enter german umlauts in mysql

2002-03-19 Thread Ken Menzel
> thanks for the reply, but when I typed "mysql" I meant it without the "d". Yes, I understand, and I see that it is in the help, but it was my understanding the the character set (at this time) MUST be selected on the server and cannot be selected on the client, but perhaps I am wrong. This

Re: cannot enter german umlauts in mysql

2002-03-19 Thread sascha mantscheff
hello ken, thanks for the reply, but when I typed "mysql" I meant it without the "d". I'm using the client for lots of batch i/o, little utilities and quick maintenance. I'm using it on quite a couple of systems (linux in all flavors and FreeBSD), but only on one of this systems it shows this

Re: cannot enter german umlauts in mysql

2002-03-19 Thread Ken Menzel
Hi Sasha, I assume it not a mistake (as you typed 'mysql' twice), but mysql is the name of the client program, you must start the server program (safe_mysqld) with the --default-character-set=latin_de. First use mysqladmin to shutdown the server, then restart it with safe_mysqld. Also I woul