MariaDB won't start when character-set-server = latin1 is in my.cnf

问题

I am migrating a database from MySQL to MariaDB and replicating the main settings along the way. After debugging every line, I located the part that stalls the MariaDB server:

character-set-server = latin1

MariaDB documentation says the default server and system encoding is latin1 unless otherwise specified, but show variables like '%char%' shows utf8mb4 is used.

I also tried server_collation = latin1_general_ci, which also stalls the server but at least the error message is logged, whereas with character-set-server, it's traceless.

Also before flagging this question as a duplicate, I actually want to set to latin1, not utf8. Other questions are about setting to utf8, which I can already do.

Thanks!

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58923143/mariadb-wont-start-when-character-set-server-latin1-is-in-my-cnf