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

[Martin Kutschker]

Steffen Müller schrieb:
> 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?

It could, but actually it depends on your Mysql settings if it's needed
at all.

Masi