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

[Steffen Müller]

Hi.

On 18.03.2009 21:25 Martin Kutschker wrote:
> These variables should show the same charset. And this charset must be
> the same as the one TYPO3 uses (note that Mysql uses the synonyms latin1
> and utf8 while TYPO3 has iso-8859-1 and utf-8).
> 

Thanks.

If I use
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] = 'utf-8';

I also have to set
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['setDBinit'] = 'SET NAMES utf8;'.chr(10).'SET
CHARACTER SET utf8;';

Otherwise I get ? instead of Umlauts.

Why doesn't forceCharset imply the setDBinit settings?

-- 
cheers,
Steffen

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