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

[Peter Niederlag]

Hi,

Am 11.11.2010 23:01, schrieb Michael Stucki:
[...]
> I'm now in favour of creating a simple mysqldump and replacing the
> CHARACTER SET statement from table definitions.
>
> The difficulty is only that some fields/tables have proper charset
> definitions, and some not. We need to find out how well this works, but
> I'm getting closer to think it is absolutely doable.

To get it at least to 99% failsafe you will need to additionally get the 
metainfo and might have to recode PARTS of the dump, or dump each table 
separatly.

I still believe it should be done either by proper ALTER statements or 
even by just manually hacking on the MySQL Meta-Data. (if UTF-8 is in a 
latin1 field, can't we just set the meta data straight forward in 
information_scheme properly?).

Greets,
Peter
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