[TYPO3-dev] charset troubles when inserting data manually into table, how to detect and handle that?

[Cyrill Helg]

Hi there

I'm importing data to a table inside TYPO3. I receive the data with a xml file 
encoded in utf8. 

When the server/installation is setup to use utf8, there is no problem, but as 
soon as that is not the case I come into troubles. Of course I can solve this 
manually with a utf8_decode, but is that a good way? And how would I find out 
what charset is used in the TYPO3 installtion? Whats the TYPO3 way of doing 
all that correctly anyway?

Thanks a lot for your hints.

Cheers
Cyrill