[TYPO3-dev] RFC: Unicode with preg_replace

[Peter Russ]

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Absender:   Martin Kutschker
Datum:       23.03.2010 21:11:
> 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.

Latin 2 bytes is TYPO3's approach before utf-8 to store encoded charset 
in a latin database. Do you remember the setup in install?



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