Bug #5864 | character_set_client does not seems to work | ||
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Submitted: | 2 Oct 2004 23:55 | Modified: | 7 Oct 2004 10:46 |
Reporter: | Levap Aretnyd | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Not a Bug | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Server | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
Version: | 5.0.1-alpha-nt | OS: | Windows (Windows 2003 web) |
Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[2 Oct 2004 23:55]
Levap Aretnyd
[5 Oct 2004 11:40]
MySQL Verification Team
Hi, Thank you for the report, but this is not a bug. SET character_set_client=utf8 only sets character_set_client variable, but doesn't set character_set_connection variables. Use SET NAMES utf8 instead or if character set of the current database is utf8 you can also use SET CHARACTER SET utf8. What exactly part of the manual did you mention?
[5 Oct 2004 13:10]
Levap Aretnyd
SET NAMES is propably much more reasonable query to execute because it sets both character_set_client and character_set_connection, but i see a problem in this: Manual under "1.3.6 Connection Character Sets and Collations" says that SET CHARACTER SET x is equal to executing mysql> SET character_set_client = x; mysql> SET character_set_results = x; mysql> SET collation_connection = @@collation_database; When I execute SET CHARACTER SET x then strings are inserted to db in correct coding - that means that one or more variables set by SET CHARACTER SET must have done that. But character_set_results variable is for coding result sets from server to client (and I am not checking correctness of inserts with this client), and collation_connection variable is for comparisons of literal strings. When I send those SETs separately, it seems that the combination 'SET character_set_client = x' and then 'SET collation_connection = @@collation_database' does the thing. But I thought collation has nothing to do with coding of inserted values. When I execute only 'SET character_set_client = x' then the coding is wrong - that is probably because character_set_connection is configured to some other coding. That is where I see something strange, why 'SET collation_connection = @@collation_database' has turned the correct coding on? And why SET CHARACTER SET is setting correct coding too even when that I thing only for this case important variable it sets is character_set_client, which when set alone does not turns the correct coding on?
[7 Oct 2004 10:46]
MySQL Verification Team
character_set_connection is responsible for data encoding. If character_set_client and character_set_connection have different values all data is converted to the character_set_connection. If you set collation_connection variable, MySQL implicitly changes value of character_set_connection variable and vice versa.
[7 Oct 2004 11:31]
Levap Aretnyd
All right, that makes sense. Thanks.