MySQL: Specify UTF-8 charset for versions table #681
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Interesting. Yes, I think so. This means dropping support for MySQL < 5.5.3, but I'm OK with that. MySQL 5.5.3 was released on 2010-03-24. |
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MySQL: Specify UTF-8 charset for versions table
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Fixes #651
This change configures MySQL to use UTF-8 for the
versionstable.Even modern versions of MySQL still use
latin1as the default characterencoding. (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-applications.html)
Many users are not aware of this, and run into trouble when they try to use
PaperTrail in apps that otherwise tend to use UTF-8. Postgres, by
comparison, uses UTF-8 except in the unusual case where the OS is configured
with a custom locale (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/multibyte.html).