Can't login to mysql community server

Question

I downloaded mysql for the first time and created a password and login and done something.

After the first restart of computer it started showing me errors when I tried to login with the exact same password.

unknown OS character set 'cp857'.
switching to the default character set 'utf8mb4'.

Answer 1

Change encoding according to your MySql server. Here you can see a list of chcp codes and the correlated country/region languages.

Ex: for European-Latin

You can change code page permanantly as follows:

• Start -> Run -> regedit
• Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Command Processor]
• Add new String Value named: Autorun
• Change the value to 'chcp [chcp_code]'

This is not the first time I see issues with turkish...

Answer 2

You can tell mysql your default character-set in your my.cnf configuration file. Just have to add lines to define collation and character set. For example you can try something general like:

collation_server = utf8_unicode_ci
character_set_server = utf8

Or maybe something more specific:

collation_server = latin5_turkish_ci
character_set_server = latin5

And then restart your mysql server.

Note: This doesn't need to be done in the registry, as @Simo stated.