[Gambas-user] gb.db (Charset)

[Benoit Minisini]

On mercredi 24 octobre 2007, David Villalobos Cambronero wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>     One of these days I realised somethig interesting. I use MySQL version
> 6.0, and I create my databases manually, I mean, I don't use
> gambas-database-manager for that. All my databases uses UTF-8, but when I
> see the values in the connection, the property Charset has the value
> "latin1", this property has to be UTF-8, right?
>
>     I haven't  any problem with this, but to me, it seems a bug. By the way
> I use Mandriva 2007.1 and Gambas 1.9.90.
>
> Regards
>
> David
>

Right, I noticed the same problem with MySQL 5 on Mandriva 2008. 

I think that the database client tells by default to the server that it 
want "latin1", even if the server uses UTF-8!

But I must investigate to understand what happens really.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini