[TYPO3-english] Where to set mb_internal_encoding

[Victor Livakovsky]

>
> 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?


As Dmitry said, it should be in .htaccess:
php_value mb_internal_encoding UTF-8