[TYPO3-dev] typo3 5.0

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> R. van Twisk schrieb:
>>
>> be careful with serialized arrays in a database.
>> If your data is in latin1, and at some point you want to upgrade
>> to utf-8 (database) then your serialized arrays might break.
>> when you let iconv  or mysql do the conversion.
> 
> How come? Why did iconv break your array?

Some characters may translate into two byte utf-8 characters but PHP's 
array length will not change in the serialized form. This way, for 
example, you may loose all your templavoila mapping if you have 
non-english charaters in them...

> But if was the case then also XML would have been broken along with 
> regular text data.

No.

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