[wp-testers] DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE in wp-config.php

[Matt]

I also always get latin1_swedish_ci for some reason... Is it a MySQL default
or something?

On 5/5/07, spencerp <spencerp1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ryan Boren wrote:
> > On 5/4/07, Boris Anthony <lists.permutype at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > So, basically, if you are doing a fresh install, don't change the
> >> > value of DB_CHARSET.  If you are doing an upgrade, don't add
> >> > DB_CHARSET.  These are there for contrary people who like to have
> >> > difficult lives.  :-)
> >>
> >> or people in non-western countries or people setting up non-western
> >> language blogs.
> >
> > Thus a default charset of UTF-8.  utf8_persian_ci collation can be
> > used with UTF-8.  Not using UTF-8 is for contrary people.  Changing
> > the collation is a different matter.  People should definitely use the
> > UTF-8 collation that suits their language.  That is something we
> > should document.
> >
> > Ryan
>
>
> I'm glad this came up again. I think I asked about this a while back,
> but, for me most of the default installs give me a database collation of
> "latin1_swedish_ci" I believe it is? Is there a "way" to mass change
> this collation in the database to one of the normal default ones?
>
> I tried doing mass "change" of collation by per table or columns and it
> never seems to wanna stick LOL! I guess it wouldn't hurt in general to
> have "latin1_swedish_ci", but it just bugs the heck out of me that it's
> not a default one like "utf8_unicode_ci" or "utf8_general_ci".  A nice
> simpler method would be appreciated being that I'm not much of a
> database guru lol! :P
>
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