Bug 384629

Summary:	dev-lang/php-5.3.8 latin1 mysql connection does not work
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	ixuz <xman00>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	PHP Bugs <php-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description ixuz 2011-09-27 08:37:18 UTC

After updating apache from 2.2.19 to 2.2.21 and php 5.3.6 to 5.3.8 the following parameter does not work anymore:

/etc/php/apache2-php5.3/php.ini:

mysql.connect_charset = latin1

Connection to this specific latin1 DB will made with UTF8 encoding which results in error on that using website. So umlauts are not shown correctly.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ole Markus With (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-10-02 11:32:34 UTC

This worked in the first place because of an undocumented feature added by a patch. The patch was dropped in PHP 5.3.7 as Gentoo policy is to diverge from upsteam feature-wise.

You need to use e.g mysql_set_charset [1] instead.


[1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-set-charset.php