Bug #71659 Make UTF8 Default Character Set

• Submitted: 10 Feb 2014 17:58
• Modified: 11 Apr 2018 10:44
• Reporter: Morgan Tocker
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Server: Charsets
• Severity: S4 (Feature request)
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[10 Feb 2014 17:58] Morgan Tocker

Description:
Via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/+bug/958120
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321505

Debian and Ubuntu distributions have discussed using UTF8 as the default (or as a debconf question).

This sounds like a useful feature request to track here / allows users to mark as "Affects me".

How to repeat:
N/A

Suggested fix:
Change from latin1 to UTF8.

[16 Apr 2015 13:43] MySQL Verification Team

Thank you for the bug report.

[15 Sep 2015 14:37] Morgan Tocker

To clarify this FR: utf8 means "utf8mb4".

[11 Apr 2018 10:44] Erlend Dahl

Implemented in 8.0.1