[TYPO3-dev] Mysql 4.0

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> ries van Twisk wrote:
>> can the install tool not simply upgrade an existing site like how all 
>> other tools are doing it?
> 
> How do you expect to upgrade latin1 database with serialized PHP arrays 
> into full utf-8 database? :) There is no solution for it so far. It 
> requires going over each table, looking into data and converting it 
> manually. And what if it concerns several thousand records?

Which reminds me, that I have changed my mind about BLOBs and TYPO3. As 
BLOBs are not affected by charset translations both serialzed arrays and 
XML data (unless it's guaranteed that the XML charset and forceCharset are 
the same) must be BLOBs.

Masi