MySQL Bugs: #3597: Can't modify user info

Bug #3597	Can't modify user info
Submitted:	29 Apr 2004 6:43	Modified:	1 Jul 2004 10:19
Reporter:	xu jie	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Administrator	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:		OS:	Microsoft Windows (WinXP)
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
There is something wrong when I modify the user info,error info:
 
Error while storing the user infomation.

MySQL Error Nr.1266
Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and
(utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '='

How to repeat:
UserAdministration->User Information->modify 'Additional Information'->Apply Changes

This happens because in previous versions, the user_info table was created with
a different character set from what is expected. A quick fix for now, is to drop that table (user_info in the mysql schema/database). It should be recreated automatically.

I experience a similar problem, but I noticed :
-the error message indicates latin1_bin, not swedish ;
-the default encoding of the tables are swedish ;
-dropping the table user_info does not fix the problem ;
-changing charset of all "mysql" tables to utf8 does not fix the problem ;
-defining default encoding to utf8 (and general collating) does not fix the problem ;
-defining latin1 as default encoding (and bin collating) does not fix the problem ;
-defining latin1 as default encoding (and swedish collating) does not fix the problem.

Using mysql client from the command line shows no problem : I can query
« select User from user where user='someone' »
without error.

I'm quite confused : the "latin1_bin" error message is always there, whatever the default encoding is set to, and even if the table user_info has been dropped.

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