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A.2.16. Can't initialize character set
You might see an error like this if you have character set
problems:
MySQL Connection Failed: Can't initialize character set charset_name
This error can have any of the following causes:
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The character set is a multi-byte character set and you have
no support for the character set in the client. In this
case, you need to recompile the client by running
configure with the
--with-charset=charset_name
or
--with-extra-charsets=charset_name
option. See Section 2.8.2, “Typical configure Options”.
All standard MySQL binaries are compiled with
--with-extra-character-sets=complex, which
enables support for all multi-byte character sets. See
Section 5.10.1, “The Character Set Used for Data and Sorting”.
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The character set is a simple character set that is not
compiled into mysqld, and the character
set definition files are not in the place where the client
expects to find them.
In this case, you need to use one of the following methods
to solve the problem:
Recompile the client with support for the character set.
See Section 2.8.2, “Typical configure Options”.
Specify to the client the directory where the character
set definition files are located. For many clients, you
can do this with the
--character-sets-dir option.
Copy the character definition files to the path where
the client expects them to be.
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