[Typo3] Different charsets in backend

Steven Bagshaw steven.bagshaw at unv.org
Wed Apr 20 13:19:31 CEST 2005


Hi,

Well, I solved my problem for now by converting my source CSV, as I should
have done in the first place!

But I'd still be interested to know if having different charsets in the BE
is possible.

Steven

"Steven Bagshaw" <steven.bagshaw at unv.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.1.1113995332.18207.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi All,
>
> I have been happily running along with utf-8 set as my "forceCharset"
value
> for the BE charset.
>
> Now, I need to handle some data that isn't in utf-8 form. It displays OK
> when I use iso-8859-1. This data I am bulk uploading using LOAD DATA
INFILE
> on MySQL 4.0.24-nt
>
> So, I would like to leave forceCharset at utf-8 for my other sites/pages.
> But for my new extension I would like to use iso-8859-1. I have tried
using
> config.renderCharset and config.metaCharset in my template and this works
> fine for the FE display, but in the BE I still get incorrect characters.
>
> I also tried using page.config.renderCharset and metaCharset, but this
> doesn't help me in the BE, where when I edit or view the rows of my table,
> the tables are still incorrect.
>
> I see there are some MySQL charset conversion options from version 4.1,
but
> upgrading MySQL would be a last resort for me.
>
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Steven Bagshaw
>
>
>





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