[TYPO3-dev] how to set the charset correctly to UTF-8

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello Jigal,

On 04/01/12 12:54, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> On 4-1-2012 11:41, Franz Holzinger wrote:
>> I have put it into fileadmin. Then I executed it successfully (see the
>> output on the bottom).
>> However nothing did change.
>
> Did you read the text in the wiki?
> ----------
> In line 19, the constant SIMULATE is set to true. This activates
> "dry-run" mode, that is, the tables are not really converted, it's only
> printed what *would* happen. After you executed the script at least once
> and there are no errors, you can set this constant to false.
> -----------

Argh, I must have overseen this. This did the trick.

Unfortunately the script did not convert the umlauts, but cut the text 
off at the position where the first umlaut is found.
E.g.:
Datenschutzerklärung   ==>   Datenschutzerkl


- Franz