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Re:Unicode nearing 50% of the web by wvenable on Thursday January 28, 2010 @04:45PM (#1085134)
Because changing the defaults might mean a world of hurt for people not expecting it. You should just always be explicit.
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Re:Unicode nearing 50% of the web by happenstance on Thursday January 28, 2010 @04:52PM (#1085142)
> You should just always be explicit.

I generally agree.

Note: I think if you leave out any specific encoding configuration from your my.cnf, mysql implicitly goes with latin1.

For users who are assuming a modern unicode/utf8 default setup, might be nice if the mysql folks would require an explicit config for this setting.

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