<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
TTBOMK, what changed was the default configuration chosen by packages for a certain distro, which build MySQL by specifying a value for --with-charset and, perhaps, --with-collation that override the MySQL defaults with distro-specified defaults and/or provide a start script that specifies --character-set-server and, perhaps, --collation-server to start the server with a specific character set that overrides the MySQL defaults.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>So is this issue specific to just that one distro (which must therefore presumably be Gentoo)? Or have other distros followed suit for some reason?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div><br>