[TYPO3-english] Charsets in mysql

[Andreas Becker]

Hi Tomaz
Why don't you convert the complete database instead of doing work piece by
piece. You will always again get to the point where it would be good to have
a clean utf8. It is at least worth a try, don't worry about the size to
much.

Andi


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Tomaz Zaman <tomaz at optiss.si> wrote:

> Hey
>
> I made an extension that list FE users, all went well, but now i have a
> small problem, I need to fetch users from database, but i would like to
> use 'SET NAMES utf8' ONLY(!!!) when querying for fe_users.
>
> Is that possible?
>
> (I made a mistake in not putting 'SET NAMES utf8' when the website was
> set up, now it is about 3GB big, so i cannot manually fix characters -
> the only ones that can be updated are fe users, because i get them from
> an LDAP server)
>
> Tomaz Zaman
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