[Typo3] utf-8: russian character problems

[Antje Lewis]

found the problem with the russian char's: it's the mysql version on the 
live server, which is not 3.23 (oops) but 4.1

4.1.x versions of mysql have trouble with utf-8:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=9091

solution: provider change.

At 03:02 06.11.2005, you wrote:

>Hello. Am having trouble migrating from test server to live server with a
>bilingual site (english/russian). What happens is that everything is
>perfect on the test server but on the live server a handful of characters
>are not accepted from the rich text editor; the error message is:
>
>"102: These fields are not properly updated in database: (header,bodytext)
>Probably value mismatch with fieldtype."
>
>Some characters then are displayed as empty boxes. The ones I've noticed
>are the characters that on the russian keyboard correspond to ' (single
>quote), y, and c on the U.S. keyboard.  Difficulty is that I understand
>absolutely no russian.
>
>I have forcecharset = utf-8 in the typo3 config.
>---------------------------------------------
>test server (win2k):
>
>typo3 3.8.0
>php 5.0.5
>apache 1.3.33
>mysql 5.0.15
>show variables:
>"character_set_client utf8
>character_set_connection utf8
>character_set_database utf8
>character_set_results utf8
>character_set_server latin1
>character_set_system utf8"
>---------------------------------------------
>the server environment (not influenceable by me at all unfortunately):
>
>typo3 3.8.0
>php 4.3.11-dev
>IIS 6.0
>mysql 3.23.49
>show variables:
>"character_set_client utf8
>character_set_connection utf8
>character_set_database utf8
>character_set_results utf8
>character_set_server latin1
>character_set_system utf8"
>---------------------------------------------
>VERY grateful for any advice!!!!!!!
>- antje
>
>
>
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