[TYPO3] typo3 database utf-8 conversion

[ries van Twisk]

On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Patrick Gaumond wrote:

> Thomas Oppelt wrote:
>
>> i would like to know about concepts of migration of a typo3 latin1
>> database to utf-8.
>> i helped myself by taking a dump and converting it with iconv but  
>> that
>> can not solve problems e.g. caused by serialized strings, where
>> stringlength might differ after conversion.
>>
>> is there something known like a standard-procedure to manage such a
>> migration in typo3 context?
>
> Google is your friend:
>
> http://www.google.ca/search?q=typo3+utf-8
>
> First hit!
>
> Then:
> http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/UFT-8_support#Convert_an_already_existing_database_to_UTF-8
>
> :)
>
> Patrick


one warning and is shown wrong on many links,
when you use a resent version of mysqldump, then you don't have to  
encode your
dump with iconv or other tools since the dump is already in utf-8.

Ries