[TYPO3-english] UTF-8 wiki - setDBinit

[Steffen Müller]

On 01.05.2009 09:12 Jan Bednarik wrote:
>> The more danger, the more honor ;-)
>> This confuses unexperienced users without need.
> 
> I once expirienced that
> 
> SET NAMES utf8;
> SET CHARACTER SET utf8;
> 
> was not enough. It didn't work with these settings and I spent hours
> finding out why. Finally I found those 5 lines which worked OK so I use
> them since.
> 

Read the docs. It is the same. If you don't believe, make some tests.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-connection.html

Maybe there was something else on your system.
I once experienced that not using UTF8filesystem had effect on the DB
connection. But I did not try to find out if it really was the reason.




-- 
cheers,
Steffen

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