[TYPO3-dev] Weird Upgrade Problem 4.1.x -> 4.2.x

[Peter Russ]

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Absender:   Martin Kutschker
Datum:       18.03.2009 08:16:
> Peter Russ schrieb:
>> Thanks Ben, but we don't have problem to convert as customer would like
>> to stay with iso-8859-1 (latin1). The point is that we loose information
>> when upgrading ...
> 
> You say that the Database runs in utf8 but TYPO3 uses iso-8859-1?
> 
> What does that mean in terms of setup (Mysql and TYPO3)?
> 
> Anyway, what I wrote about BLOB to TEXT conversion could be also a
> problem in this case. If Mysql really stores the data in utf8 (but talks
> to the client in iso-8859-1) then the data BLOB will not be converted to
> utf-8 when the data type is changed. OTOH the on-the-fly conversion from
> utf8 (storage format) to iso-8859-1 (client format) will fail (as
> iso-8859-1 is nt valid in utf-8).
> 
> Masi

Masi I would agree, if that would be also a problem with version 4.1.10 
of TYPO3. BUT we get the problem after update, i.e. after the
ALTER table .... TEXT
converting blob to something different that blob performed by 
install->compare

Peter.



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