Linux下用源码安装 MySQL 初始化mysql数据库时提示字符编码错误的解决办法

在安装MySQL初始化的时候出现了以下错误

root@localhost mysql-5.5.19]# bash scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/home/webserver/mysqldata/Installing MySQL system tables... [ERROR] Unknown collation: 'utf8-general_ci'[ERROR] Aborting [Note] /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown completeInstallation of system tables failed!  Examine the logs in/home/webserver/mysqldata/ for more information

造成这种错误原因是在配置参数时utf8-general_ci写错了，应该是utf8_general_ci,
如果不想重新安装数据库那就在my.cnf文件中[mysqld]下面增加一行：
character_set_server=utf8