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

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Cyrill Helg wrote:
> 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....

The charset of the database is $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset']. If that is empty, use iso-8859-1.

BE and FE automatically convert data to the proper character set. At least core modules do.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 Core team
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