[DRE-maint] Bug#599140: redmine: Please use UTF-8 in mysql database.

ARAKI Yasuhiro ar at debian.org
Tue Oct 5 02:14:39 UTC 2010


Package: redmine
Version: 1.0.1-1
Severity: important


I had installed redmine 1.0.1-1 by apt-get install mysql-server redmine redmine-mysql.

By this time, redmine-mysql did not chceck mysql's defaut characterset.
Then, redemine-mysql had made 'redmine_default' database with 'Latin-1' characterset. 
As a result, my redmine does not show correct words. 
For example, "Member Role -- Manager, Developer, Reporter", "Ticket Priority -- Low, Normal, High, Urgent, Immediate" and others.
These words are showd "????....".

To solve this problem, I added "default-character-set=utf8" in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. 

Thanks.
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