[debian-mysql] Bug#476865: mysql-server-5.1: Set Default Character Set to UTF-8

[Olaf van der Spek]

Package: mysql-server-5.1
Version: 5.1.23rc-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Could you set the default character set to UTF-8?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mysql-server-5.1 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.107             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.20            Debian configuration 
management sy
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbi-perl            1.604-1           Perl5 database interface by 
Tim Bu
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0-3         GCC support library
ii  libmysqlclient16       5.1.23rc-1        MySQL database client library
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080405-1    Shared libraries for 
terminal hand
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.0-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwrap0               7.6.q-15          Wietse Venema's TCP 
wrappers libra
ii  lsb-base               3.2-8             Linux Standard Base 3.2 
init scrip
ii  mysql-client-5.1       5.1.23rc-1        MySQL database client binaries
ii  mysql-common           5.1.23rc-1        MySQL database common files 
(e.g.
ii  passwd                 1:4.1.1-1         change and administer 
password and
ii  perl                   5.8.8-12          Larry Wall's Practical 
Extraction
ii  psmisc                 22.6-1            Utilities that use the proc 
filesy
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages mysql-server-5.1 recommends:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii  libhtml-template-p 2.9-1                 HTML::Template : A module 
for usin
ii  mailx              1:20071201-2          Transitional package for 
mailx ren

-- debconf information:
  mysql-server/error_setting_password:
  mysql-server-5.1/start_on_boot: true
  mysql-server-5.1/postrm_remove_databases: false
  mysql-server-5.1/nis_warning:
  mysql-server-5.1/really_downgrade: false
  mysql-server-5.1/no_upgrade_with_isam_tables: