[TYPO3-templavoila] problems with utf-8

Karsten Dambekalns karsten at typo3.org
Fri Apr 21 20:13:57 CEST 2006


Hi.

R. van Twisk wrote:

> You need to set the whole chain to utf-8
> 
>   - Database needs to be in utf-8 (Do a DB dumo, use iconv to convert to
> utf-8, drop de DB and create it with utf-8-unicode-ci)

Uh-oh, be careful with this. Beware that MySQL (can) convert on it's own, if
server and client charset differ. Also think about the fact that if you
make use of this, it won't touch BLOB fields, so any special chars in e.g.
certain sys_template fields must be converted manually...

Karsten



More information about the TYPO3-project-templavoila mailing list