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

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Michael Stucki wrote:
> 
>> Who is using 3.23 anymore? Maybe we should wait until Debian ends 
>> support of Woody. I'm not 100% sure but think that all major 
>> distributions switched to 4.x more than two years ago. (MySQL 4.0 was 
>> released in March 2003)
> 
> There are still servers out there who use PHP 4.2.x and MySQL 3.23. But 
> this is not a reason to stay with such old versions. It only complicates 
> code updates.

So why don't we switch to PHP 5.1 right now? Seriously, we have a plan to 
do a migration to newer software for 5.0 and I really think it sucks when I 
have use UTF-8 just because some TYPO3 devs think it is so cool.

>> How did you convert your DB? According to Peter this works pretty easy 
>> using "mysqldump" and "mysql --charset utf8".

I do a dump and then use "recode" using windows-1252 as source charset. You 
can use iconv for sanity checks, cecause it will choke on illegal chars 
(that's why I use windows-1252!).

Masi