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

[Steffen Kamper]

Cyrill Helg schrieb:
> 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

Hi Cyrill,

take a look at t3lib_cs->conv for charset coversion. As this conversion 
is string based you can use it for inserting the values into table.

vg Steffen