[debian-mysql] Bug#573245: mysql-common: Ancient default character set for clients

[Al Nikolov]

Package: mysql-common
Version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny3
Severity: wishlist

This little extra default:

[client]
default-character-set = utf8

could save someone's day. The default latin-1 without any respect to the 
mysql client language environment is too conservative.

Or, at least it should be noticed in README.Debian.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- no debconf information