Just to make things REALLY messy... try setting the default character
set of a 4.1 server to utf8, and then importing your data from 4.0...
your mysql usernames are in real trouble now, because utf8 considers
itself to be multi byte and takes more space, cutting down on the 16
characters by
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:46:02PM -0700, Tim Traver wrote:
> Is there any reason why I shouldn't increase the size of the allowable
> user names in mysql to var(32) instead of the default var(16) ???
>
> Couldn't really find much on it, but wanted to ask if anyone knows of
> any troubles this m