Michael Vorburger

Somehow the character set is unknown for you. No idea what could cause this. Let's close this issue, and reopen it if someone wants to contribute a fix for this...

@itamarlev #52 sounds like a good approach for fixing this; perhaps you would like to contribute a PR for that FR to solve this issue.

@itamarlev perhaps if in addition to specifying the character set for the DB server (as above) you also (or instead?) specify the character set of the JDBC client [as shown...

Interesting. If you think it could help to be able to specify the Charset to use there via a parameter, I would be happy to merge a PR from you...

I had a brief first look at this, and at least one of the problems is that at least for me on Fedora, the `mysql_install_db` is in `/usr/bin/` but the...

#565 implements this now. It's also a great illustration of why I'm still slightly torn whether this is a good idea at all... that PR as-is right now still fails...

The above is because I'm currently [running Travis](https://github.com/vorburger/MariaDB4j/blob/master/.travis.yml) without a `dist:` which apparently defaults to Ubuntu `xenial` 16.04 which [has ancient MySQL 5.7.30](https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/xenial/#databases-and-services). I'm trying to switch it to running...

MySQL 8.0.21 doesn't have `mysql_install_db` at all anymore, so the new test in #565 fails on Travis CI due to `Caused by: org.apache.commons.exec.ExecuteException: Execution failed (Exit value: -559038737. Caused by...

#565 is now merged. Perhaps it's worth documenting it on the [README](https://github.com/vorburger/MariaDB4j/blob/master/README.md) and not just in `testLocalMariaDB()` of [`MariaDB4jSampleTutorialTest`](https://github.com/vorburger/MariaDB4j/blob/master/mariaDB4j/src/test/java/ch/vorburger/mariadb4j/tests/MariaDB4jSampleTutorialTest.java)? Does anyone reading this want to make a documentation contribution for...

@stevenodb something built-in based on environnement variable/s could be neat, if you want to make a PR for this. (But M1 binaries contrib in #497 would "add even more value"...