[TYPO3-dev] how to set the charset correctly to UTF-8

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello,

when I want to set a homepage to UTF-8, I discover some problems.

I have already read the wiki page
http://wiki.typo3.org/UTF-8_support

The line
  $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] = 'utf-8';
has been set to deprecated since TYPO3 4.5. So I added this as a note to 
the wiki.

If I use [SYS][setDBinit] =  SET NAMES utf8;
then the characters are wrong in the BE and FE:
über instead of über
höher instead of höher
läßt instead of läßt

All collations are set to 'utf8_general_ci'. phpMyAdmin shows all umlaut 
characters correctly. So this means that the characters must be stored 
correctly in the database table.

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['t3lib_cs_convMethod'] = 'iconv';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['t3lib_cs_utils'] = 'iconv';

I do not know what is wrong. Because on another site I must set "SET 
NAMES utf8;" to get the UTF-8 characters shown..

Setup:
page.config {
    metaCharset = utf-8
}
# set the TYPO3 language to german
config.language = de
# set the PHP locale to german
config.locale_all = de_DE



In tt_products I had to do a character conversion for the data entered 
into the fields: (tt_products/view/class.tx_ttproducts_info_view.php)

foreach ($infoFields as $k => $fName) {
	if (!in_array($fName, $selectInfoFields)) {
		$fieldMarker = strtoupper($fName);
		$markerArray['###PERSON_' . $fieldMarker . '###'] =
			$TSFE->csConv($this->infoArray['billing'][$fName], $TSFE->metaCharset);
		$markerArray['###DELIVERY_' . $fieldMarker . '###'] =
			$TSFE->csConv($this->infoArray['delivery'][$fName], $TSFE->metaCharset);
	}
}

But why is this needed? On some sites the character conversion must be 
removed. The 'recs' is converted into another charset than UTF-8.



<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
...
<tr>
<td><span 
class="tx-ttproducts-pi1-wrap1"><strong>Anrede:</strong></span></td>
<td><span class="tx-ttproducts-pi1-wrap1"><select 
name="recs[personinfo][salutation]" 
id="field_personinfo_salutation"><option value="0">Herr</option><option 
value="1">Fr&auml;ulein</option><option value="2">Frau</option><option 
value="3">An</option></select></span></td>

</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="tx-ttproducts-pi1-wrap1"><strong>Name: 
</strong></span></td>
<td><input type="text" name="recs[personinfo][name]" size="30" 
value=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="tx-ttproducts-pi1-wrap1"><strong>Firma: 
</strong></span></td>
<td><input type="text" name="recs[personinfo][company]" size="30" 
value=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="tx-ttproducts-pi1-wrap1"><strong>Adresse: 
</strong></span></td>
<td><textarea cols=30 rows=5 name="recs[personinfo][address]" 
wrap="off"></textarea></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><span class="tx-ttproducts-pi1-wrap1"><strong>PLZ: </strong></span></td>
<td><input type="text" name="recs[personinfo][zip]" size="5" value=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="tx-ttproducts-pi1-wrap1"><strong>Stadt: 
</strong></span></td>
<td><input type="text" name="recs[personinfo][city]" size="50" 
value=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="tx-ttproducts-pi1-wrap1"><strong>Land: 
</strong></span></td>
<td><select size="1" id="field_personinfo_country_code" 
name="recs[personinfo][country_code]" onchange="this.form.submit();">

...



- Franz