make sure transporter connections are close early in shutdown

into mysql.com:/home/jimw/my/mysql-4.1-clean

into mysql.com:/home/jimw/my/mysql-4.1-clean

into mysql.com:/home/bkroot/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/home/my/mysql-4.1

into 51.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa:/Users/bell/mysql/bk/work-4.1

independently from the expression it is initialized from.
In other words, this change treats a user variable like
a table with one column and one record. Discussed with 
PeterG, Serg and Lars. This change also simplifies replication
allowing not to replicate variables' coercibility.

into 51.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa:/Users/bell/mysql/bk/work-4.1

into mysql.com:/home/my/mysql-4.1

Change string->float conversion to delay division as long as possible.
This gives us more exact integer->float conversion for numbers of type '123.45E+02' (Bug #7740)

  Treat unknown characters straight in a query as syntax error, rather skipping it as a space character.

  optimize test_if_minus() when not UCS2 support is compiled.

  Fix compiler complaint.

  Bugs: #8385: utf8_general_ci treats cyrillic letters I and SHORT I as the same

  bug#7571:
  Server & Client characterset are shown under different decriptions
  Switch them into the correct order.

into mysql.com:/home/mysqldev/tulin/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/home/jimw/my/mysql-4.1-clean

into mysql.com:/home/jimw/my/mysql-4.1-clean

more information to the error message.

into mysql.com:/home/bk/b7879-mysql-4.0

Backporting Monty's fix for 5.0 into 4.1.

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.1.clean