[TYPO3] Bug? Using UTF-8, 'Ä' in template.constants: Error 102!

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

Martin Bless wrote:
> Hhm, I have to admit I don't really get it. What does
>  SET collation_connection = @@collation_database;
> mean? This line seems to make the difference. 

It sets the connection collation (roughly put, "charset stuff") to that 
of the database (server? not sure here).

> An why and how does this affect just the data in the BLOBs
> sys_template.constants and sys_template.config but not
> tt_content.bodytext?

Rather the other way: BLOBs are (BINARY large object, eh?) *not* 
affected by any charset conversion stuff.

Karsten