[Typo3] Indexed Search (CVS Version) + MySQL 4.1 + UTF-8 => no results with special chars

[Jochen Rieger]

Hi Dmitry & all,

>>In other words... there would be a double convertion in many places? Is
>>this meant by the "magic"?
> 
> Some versions of mysql do not support utf-8 natively. Some other
> databases do not support utf-8 too. This is why typo3 handles it all.

on the one hand this is a very nice behaviour towards backward 
compatibility. But on the other hand this handicaps new technologies, 
doesn't it?

I haven't gotten into the deep roots of UTF-8 conversion in TYPO3's core 
classes yet, but if I understand you correctly it converts everything it 
get's to some format that can be stored in an ISO database. And through 
this it would destroy it for native UTF-8 databases.

Wouldn't it be good to check, if the DB supports UTF-8 natively? And if 
so to leave out the transformation it seemingly is doing at the moment.

To get back to my case again. Everything works fine so far except the 
indexed search. Maybe one could swich off transformation THERE in case a 
db that supports UTF-8 natively is detected?

Greets,
Jochen

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