[TYPO3-dev] RFC: Unicode with preg_replace

[Martin Kutschker]

Peter Russ schrieb:

> @David: what is your approach for a site to support "Chinese", Japanese,
> Russian and German? Ok may work on BE and FE with character set
> switches. BUT what is the characterset for the DB? Latin 2 Bytes?

What does "Latin 2 Bytes" mean? What you can use as storage charset in Mysql is UCS-2, but
unfortunately you cannot work on it with PHP. So you will have Mysql to recode it on the fly for you
(it's capable of that). This way you would save bytes on the hard disk.

Masi