[TYPO3] Call for problems: MySQL 5 in TYPO3

[Martin Kutschker]

Elmar Hinz schrieb:
> Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] wrote:
> 
>> Hi all!
>>
>> (This is a cross-post to "english" and "dev" lists. I decided to make a
>> cross-post because this topic is important)
>>
>> I make myself a new server. It is going to use MySQL 5. I remember that
>> TYPO3 have problems with MySQL 5. If you experienced any, tell me about
>> them in this thread (preferable in "dev" list!) and I will try to fix them
>> until release of 4.2.
>>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I never have seen any problems related to MySQL5 in special. 
> 
> If there were problems they were related to the UTF-8. It didn't run out of
> the box last time I had to set up a server.

Remember that any new DB is created in the default charset of the 
server, which may or may not be UTF8.

If it's not utf8 you must set "SET NAMES utf8" to the DBinit conf var
prior to the DB creation (or at least table creation).

Masi