[TYPO3] typo3 database utf-8 conversion

[Thomas Oppelt]

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
> Thomas Oppelt wrote: on 12.01.2008 11:43:
> 
>>>> 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 
> 
> 
>>> 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?
> 
> I guess you will have to "script" that converter on your own, because no 
> "automatic" converter will work with PHP-serialized array. I haven't 
> really found the need to do that, in most cases the serialized arrays 
> are either some "minor" configuration that can be adapted by hand after 
> converting everything else, or some cached stuff that we can clean up 
> afterwards anyway. Isn't that the case?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ernesto

i HOPE this is the case, i don't know if typo3 just stores temp data 
like caching data as serialized array/strings...what be nice if someone 
could say "no prob u can be unconcerned about that".