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  1. Bug #34181
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 34181

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Alan Tam (at) wrote : Re: locale and charset problem in mysql

Let me attempt to analyze the impact of the proposed fix on changing the default character set.

* Every database created stores its own default character set, hence this change does not affect them.

* Since utf8 is a superset of latin1, every newly created database should be able to store the same kind of information.

* The reason that upstream decides latin1 as default is real mystery. Perhaps it is due to legacy reason from version on or before 4.0.

Let's attempt to ask for inclusion in Feisty.