joomla/joomla-platform — pull request #1388 by realityking (2012-07-19 17:17:57+00:00)
Title: Improve mysql database handling.

Two changes are in this pull request:
-JDatabaseQueryMysql now extends JDatabaseQueryMysqli instead of the other way around, making it easier to eventually remove the mysql version.
-The eating of the charset was changed to follow PHP best practices