[TYPO3-dev] Bug 1039 - Why T3 has that few success in asia!!!

[Wolfgang Klinger]

*hiya!*

Elmar Hinz wrote:
> I played around a litle. Obviously this line
> 
>> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['setDBinit'] = 'SET NAMES utf8;';
> 
> is elementary to get a clean utf-8 database, so that you can handle the
> data also with tools like phpmyadmin.
> 
> Unfortunatly it's not a setting, people stumble directly upon. How could
> this be improved? 
> 
> Would it make sense to set this automatically when "force utf-8" is set? 

No, I don't think this works with MySQL prior 4.1(?)


bye
Wolfgang