[TYPO3] typo3 database utf-8 conversion

[Patrick Gaumond]

Thomas Oppelt wrote:

> i would like to know about concepts of migration of a typo3 latin1 
> database to utf-8.
> i helped myself by taking a dump and converting it with iconv but that 
> can not solve problems e.g. caused by serialized strings, where 
> stringlength might differ after conversion.
> 
> is there something known like a standard-procedure to manage such a 
> migration in typo3 context?

Google is your friend:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=typo3+utf-8

First hit!

Then: 
http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/UFT-8_support#Convert_an_already_existing_database_to_UTF-8

:)

Patrick