116272 – superfluous USE flag "utf8"

Bug 116272 - superfluous USE flag "utf8"

Summary: superfluous USE flag "utf8"

Status:	RESOLVED LATER

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Francesco R. (RETIRED)

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Duplicates (1):	116273 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2005-12-21 05:01 UTC by Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-12-21 08:23 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-21 05:01:26 UTC

I'm unclear as to why you added a local "utf8" flag for mysql to use UTF-8 encodings, when we have a global "unicode" flag that people enable to achieve exactly the same purpose everywhere else.  Can you look into changing over to using the already established USE flag?

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-21 05:07:04 UTC

*** Bug 116273 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Radek Podgorny 2005-12-21 06:51:15 UTC

I don't know how about mysql specifically but unicode != utf8

Comment 3 Francesco R. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-21 08:23:35 UTC

This has been requested more than one time by more than one gentoo dev.

The effect of the use flag is to change the defaults into the "my.cnf" file, something that can be left to the user at all.

I prefere to remove that use flag, but also I want to wait for the acceptance of glep-42 [1] that should permit to inform the users in a more direct way.

thoughts ?

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html