[TYPO3] typo3 database utf-8 conversion

[Thomas Oppelt]

ries van Twisk schrieb:
> 
> 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

But does this prevent me from these cases where a s:4:"öäüß"; in latin1 
is s:8:"öäüß"; in utf-8.
So if you try to unserialize such a string after conversion u get just 
false, or not?