[TYPO3-english] TYPO3 6.0 utf-8 issue

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi hinterindien at gmx.net,

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hinterindien at gmx.net wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I am just checking out the new baby typo3 6.0. Most of the stuff is
> working so far, but upgrading from 4.5 all german umlauts in BE and FE are
> broken.

Most likely, you have the wrong charset in the database.
There is a long wiki article about this:
http://wiki.typo3.org/UTF-8_support

> in the old localconf.php we had the line:
> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] = 'utf-8';
> 
> which is now translated to:
> return array(
> 'BE' => array(
> 'forceCharset' => 'utf-8',
> ),
> in LocalConfiguration.php
> 
> This seems really staightforward and no source of a possible mistake...

The configuration is already removed with TYPO3 4.7.

> Is there any other new place, that could affect utf-8-handling?

Yes, many: DB, DB connection, FE TS setting

Best regards
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