[TYPO3-english] Where to set mb_internal_encoding

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

hinterindien at gmx.net wrote:
> I converted my site to utf-8 and found out that, to work properly, php has to be set to mb_internal_encoding = utf-8. 

.htaccess?

> Since I cannot access php.ini, the only thing to do is to set mb_internal_encoding('utf-8') in php-files. 
> 
> Somebody recommended to do this in the main index.php... 
> 
> But is this the right place? 

Nope.

> Additionally this works only for the frontend. Where do I have to put it to make it work in BE as well?

In the Install tool. See in "All configuration".

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