[TYPO3-core] RFC #7942: Enable UTF-8 by default

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

> Having a Latin1 connection then it may work, although it's an ugly
> constellation. The result will be a database which is marked as Latin1
> but has UTF-8 content. Try to edit such a table in phpMyAdmin, and you
> will see the problem... Also, converting is not easily possible because
> a conversion of the DB from Latin1 to UTF8 would convert the content, so
> the result would be double-encoded content.
>
> This is a very broken configuration, however I'm aware that many are
> still using it because forceCharset made this so easy to use.
> However, we should avoid it as much as possible.

Yes, I confirm, I've seen this misconfiguration with _many_ websites...

Xavier