[TYPO3-core] RFC: Fix (part of) #7589: FULLTEXT keys are not processed correctly

[Steffen Kamper]

"Michael Stucki" <michael at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1204423380.29264.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
> Attached are the remaining patches to make this feature complete.
>
> As you can notice, this will also take care of extra data such as table
> engine and collation of the table. This will be essential for full UTF8
> support (which unfortunately did not make it into this version).
>
> So the character set/collation detection is basically done, but has been
> disabled by a comment to avoid large numbers of differences during DB
> comparision.
>
> How to test these patches:
>
> Just make sure you perform a DB comparison after every patch that has been
> applied. Generally nothing should be suggested for change except the table
> engine in case it was different (yeah, installations which had been
> upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 did not change the table engine for index_*
> although this was suggested by ext_tables.sql)
>
> How to review these patches:
> I have done my best to split everything into the most readable form. If 
> you
> have any questions, I'll be happy to help you.
>
> As a little bonus I have attached "blobToText.diff" which comes from bug
> #6098 but is pretty related with this one. Actually this would allow one 
> to
> perform a database conversion to UTF8 with a minimal effort (just 
> uncomment
> the above mentioned collation detection and follow the steps described in
> #6098).
>
> - michael
>
> Michael Stucki wrote:
>
>> This is a SVN patch request.
>>
>> Problem:
>> If any table includes FULLTEXT key, that key will not be processed
>> correctly. Both EM and instal tool will prompt to add key permanently 
>> even
>> if key exists.
>>
>> Solution:
>> No solution yet. This patch is doing some cleanup first. I have already
>> written the actual solution, but it would be hard to review it if it were
>> mixed with these non-functional changes.
>>
>> However, since I've run into trouble last time committing non-functional
>> changes, I will first post it here to be sure.
>>
>> Branches: TYPO3_4-2
>>
>> Bugtracker Reference:
>> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=7589
>>
>> - michael
>
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Hi Michael,
+1 by reading for step1-step4 and blobToText. These changes are important 
for supporting FULLTEXT and switch later to default utf8.
I will test them tomorrow to see how it works and report it here.

vg  Steffen
vg  Steffen