[TYPO3-dev] UTF-8 real support, really?

[Ries van Twisk]

Martin Koch Andersen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I understand from documentation that ALL I have to do to get a fully 
>UTF-8 driven site is setting $TYPO3_CONF_VARS["BE"]["forceCharset"] = 
>'utf-8' - and this appears to work.
>
>But I don't understand why. I mean the MySQL collation is not utf-8 but 
>some latin set. So MySQL functions such as LENGTH gives wrong results
>etc. Also mb_string is not being used - which means most PHP string 
>functions can mess up the strings.
>  
>
So why don't you convert the complete chain to UTF-8??

>So does TYPO3 simply avoid this? Does it convert back and forth between 
>the latin encoding and unicode? And does this not lead to problems in 
>some cases? Like two different utf-8 encoding strings have the same 
>latin value etc.
>
>Has these things been examined in details?
>
>  
>


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