From: Rick James
Date: August 7 2012 6:55pm
Subject: RE: About character_set_*
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The answer is long and involved...
  http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/charcoll

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhigang Zhang [mailto:zzgang2008@stripped]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 3:25 AM
> To: mysql@stripped
> Subject: About character_set_*
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> Hello.
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> As I know, when client send data to server, the encoding converting
> process
> is:
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> character_set_client  -->  character_set_connection --> db table
> encoding.
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> I think it is a short path than above way:
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> character_set_client  -->  db table encoding.
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> Why it is converted to "character_set_connection"?
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> Yours
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> Zhigang.