[TYPO3-core] The installer, the charset and the DB

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Martin,

> I think it is a big problem that the forceCharset is asked at a very late
> step in the installation.

I think the solution for this is pretty easy:
Make UTF-8 the default in 4.1 except if compatVersion is set to an older 
version.

I had some discussions about the possibility of this when I met Peter and 
Karsten last week. Basically, we can still provide full ISO-8859-1/whatever 
charset compatibility, we simply enforce it for future versions (according to 
compatVersion).

This requires only a few changes:
- Write a short guide on how to convert latin1 (or whatever) DBs to UTF-8
- Remove multiplyDBfieldSize
- Add a big fat warning if the database doesn't run with UTF-8 support

I will come up with a more detailed proposal at a later time, but for the 
moment I think this would solve your problem quite easy...

- michael
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