Tickets :: Comment on [#8777] $conf['sql']['charset'] is ignored

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Comment	>> Doesn't matter because we convert the data to the correct charset anyway. > > I thought about it and I can say NO YOU DO NOT CONVERT ANYTHING! > The data in database are stored as 8bit representation of multi-byte > encoding. > If there was any conversion from mysql default encoding (latin1, > which is not able to hold multi-byte characters) to some other > encoding. It would not obviously work for multi-byte characters. > > Horde simply stores utf-8 (if sql-charset is utf8) byte stream in > mysql as latin1 > and the same way retrieves it back. > > This bug in combination with php inability to change > default-character-set for mysql. May be considered not beeing a bug, > but it is one. > And when php becomes able to set mysql default charset Horde brokes. >
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