modified the 'use_set_names' variable in the MySQL/i drivers to be a class property instead of static, in case multiple database servers are connected to in a single request. Also clarified description of the 'dbcollat' setting in the configuration files
diff --git a/application/config/database.php b/application/config/database.php
index e77bf97..4bb7a57 100644
--- a/application/config/database.php
+++ b/application/config/database.php
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
| ['char_set'] The character set used in communicating with the database
| ['dbcollat'] The character collation used in communicating with the database
| NOTE: For MySQL and MySQLi databases, this setting is only used
-| as a backup if your server is running PHP < 5.2.3 or MySQL < 5.0.7.
+| as a backup if your server is running PHP < 5.2.3 or MySQL < 5.0.7
+| (and in table creation queries made with DB Forge).
| There is an incompatibility in PHP with mysql_real_escape_string() which
| can make your site vulnerable to SQL injection if you are using a
| multi-byte character set and are running versions lower than these.