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

[Steffen Kamper]

moin,

you have to differ FE and BE

BE: $GLOBALS['LANG']->charset
FE: $GLOBALS['TSFE'}->defaultCharSet

vg Steffen

Cyrill Helg schrieb:
> Am Saturday 13 September 2008 schrieb 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.
> 
> yes, ok. But how can I get the current charset of the installation? It would 
> be nice to just have a function that takes care of it....
> 
>> vg Steffen
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