[mythtv] Qt4 port: database character set change necessary

[Andreas]

Am Samstag, 22. März 2008 11:00:37 schrieb Janne Grunau:
> Hi,
>
> With qt4 our current way of storing raw UTF8 byte sequences in latin1
> encoded columns is not working anymore.
>
> The easiest way to get working utf8 strings is to change the database
> character set to utf8. The alternatives we thought of have bigger
> disadvantages than the 3 bytes per symbol utf8 in char() columns and
> varchar() in keys and indices.

[...]

> I've prepared already the necessary db updates and once it is committed
> to the branch no further db updates should be done in trunk until the
> branch is merged to trunk.
>
> Janne

After my last move to a different backend machine I completely dropped the 
database and created a new one with utf-8 as it's character set. Would the 
db update you are planning 'screw up' my mythconverg as it already is 
utf-8, or can I just go with it?

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Gruß
Andreas