[Typo3-dev] T3 Charset

[Bernhard Kraft]

Hallo list,


I had a conversation with Michael Stucki via ICQ about the good-ol' 
charset problem.

All after all we came to the conclusion that something is wrong how 
texts in different languages are handled in T3.

First it must be statet that a text cannot be "identified" to be in a 
certain charset ... You can't tell if a string of Text is utf-8 or 
iso-8859-1

So you would have to create a "charset" field in eacht table to identify
the charset of each records.

You have to do this on a per record basis as different BE-Users with 
different languages use differnt charsets in the BE. Two users with 
different charsets could each create a record in the same table but both
with a different charset.

One method to cope with that problem would be to say: T3 4.0.0 uses 
strictly utf-8 ...

There has been some discussion on a closed asssoc-mailinglist about this 
subject but Michael meant I should post to .dev to see what the others 
think about this problem ...

Do you think we shall simply define utf-8 as the new standard for T3 and 
  drop all the efforts which have been made to support different 
charsets or should really a default field "charset" get added to each 
table in which each time the record gets stored the charset of the 
current user gets set ...


greets,
Bernhard