collation

29 Jun 2010, 2:48 AM

#1

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collation

I wanted to ask what should zen carts collation tables be? because all of my tables for some reason are type MyISAM and collation *latin1_general_ci *

29 Jun 2010, 3:01 AM

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drbyte

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Re: collation

In v1.3.x, by default the table TYPE is MyISAM, and the collation is latin1_general_ci, based on the latin1 character set.

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29 Jun 2010, 4:19 AM

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rxalex

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Re: collation

is latin the usual character set? note this was a fresh install.

29 Jun 2010, 8:41 AM

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drbyte

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Re: collation

predominantly yes

if you're upgrading from a prior version and all your tables are utf8 then you should probably be using utf8 instead of latin1

but for a new install of a new site, on a site that doesn't need non-latin characters, the default of latin1 should be fine

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