From: Alan T. DeKok <aland@freeradius.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:19:29 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Document MySQL character set issues
X-Git-Tag: release_3_0_0_beta0~310
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c61be508a094a04a31bb882ba6605bf2091e8cd;p=thirdparty%2Ffreeradius-server.git

Document MySQL character set issues

Patch from Stefan Winter
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diff --git a/raddb/sql/mysql/dialup.conf b/raddb/sql/mysql/dialup.conf
index f294b4db581..09733ca6997 100644
--- a/raddb/sql/mysql/dialup.conf
+++ b/raddb/sql/mysql/dialup.conf
@@ -10,7 +10,18 @@
 	#safe-characters = "@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789.-_: /"
 
 	#######################################################################
-	# Query config: Username
+        #  Connection config
+        #######################################################################
+        # The character set is not configurable. The default character set of
+        # the mysql client library is used. To control the character set,
+        # create/edit my.cnf (typically in /etc/mysql/my.cnf or /etc/my.cnf)
+        # and enter
+        # [client]
+        # default-character-set           = utf8
+        #
+
+       #######################################################################
+	#  Query config:  Username
 	#######################################################################
 	# This is the username that will get substituted, escaped, and added
 	# as attribute 'SQL-User-Name'. '%{SQL-User-Name}' should be used below