[TYPO3-english] converting to utf-8

[Victor Livakovsky]

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to convert existing site from iso-8859-1 to utf-8.
> I get all the pages and page contents nicely converted (after changing the 
> charset in install tool) with the extension convert2utf8. But it doesn't 
> convert tt_news records.
>
> Any recommendation/ideas/hints how to proceed with this are very much 
> welcome :)

Hi,

Maybe this section from TYPO3 wiki will be useful for you: 
http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/UTF-8_support#Convert_an_already_existing_database_to_UTF-8
Especially notice "MySQL based conversion" - then you may convert your 
tt_news db tables to utf-8.