[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13103: "Unknown character set" during install into database reports successful install.

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#13103: "Unknown character set" during install into database reports successful
install.
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 Reporter:  MECU          |       Owner:                        
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new                   
 Priority:  lowest        |   Milestone:  Unassigned            
Component:  General       |     Version:  3.0                   
 Severity:  trivial       |    Keywords:  install error database
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 During editing of the wp-config.php, I changed

 {{{

 define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
 }}}
 to
 {{{

 define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8_general_ci');
 }}}
 Which I thought was valid.

 After clicking "Install Wordpress" I got a page full of:
 {{{
 WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: 'utf8_general_ci']
 }}}
 And at the bottom, "Success" with a login prompt, but nothing was actually
 created in the database.

 I think WP shouldn't report a successful install if the user happened to
 accidentally change this value (or another) during install as it would
 cause confusion.

 I used a svn checked out version of WP on 2010-04-24 on my local computer
 using PHP5 and apache2, but I think this is really a problem since 2.6 (or
 when the current install system was implemented).

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