Override compiled character set
Posted by: Jevgenij Obzigailov
Date: March 23, 2011 04:18AM

I use MySQL since 4.0, and my cp1257 encoded database needs custom sort order. In earlier versions (up to 5.0) it was quite easy to modify cp1257.xml definition file in share/charset folder. But with version 5.5, both character set and collation I used are compiled into database server executable, so modifying xml file does not work.

I found a workaround - created "custom" character set, made it default and re-imported data sorts as it should. However, I hope there should be better way.

So my question is: how can I override compiled character set to external one with the same name? For example, MySQL 5.5.10 has cp1257 and cp1257_lithuanian_ci built-in, but I want to redefine them from external configuration file in /share/charsets

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