Re: [exim] exim, mysql >= 4.1 and characters encoding

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Author: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim, mysql >= 4.1 and characters encoding
On Thursday 07 August 2008, Darton Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@???> wrote:
> > I'm fetching some data from mysql with national characters. mysql needs
> > to be told which character encoding client wants. It's done by query "SET
> > NAMES xyz" (like SET NAMES latin2).
> >
> > I wonder how to do that in exim so all connections to mysql will have
> > "set names" as first command. Is there some smart way without patching
> > exim?
>
> Somewhat OT, but:
>
> Try
>
> init-connect='SET NAMES <charset>'
>
> in the [mysqld] section of your my.cnf. This will set all connections
> to use that charset.


That's worse possible solution because it applies to everything, not only to
exim connection.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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