[Typo3] unicode today

[Sean Ellis]

Elmar Hinz wrote:
> Gideon So wrote:
> 
>>     I build all my typo3 sites with UTF-8 coding and they all work 
>> fine here. The setting is just simple:
>>
>>     1. set the [BE][forceCharser] = utf-8 in the install tool.
>>         2. set page.config.metaCharset = utf-8 in the setu field of 
>> yoyr template.

> 
> I set MySQl collation to utf8_unicode_ci

Does setting '[BE][forceCharset] = utf-8' on an existing typo3 setup 
mean that the database will need to be converted to use utf-8? Our 
database currently uses the default, Latin1.

thanks,

Sean