#7 Set 'forceCharset' to 'utf-8'

[Kasper]

This is a plea to haveTYPO3Winstaller come with a localconf.php setting of:

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] = 'utf-8';

And likewise, update MySQL's file my.ini to use utf8:

default-character-set=utf8

For an in-depth talk on utf-8 confer to http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/UFT-8_support

[Andreas Eberhard]

Perhaps this will come with TYPO3 4.2.3+

You can change the my.ini yourself, and for new "blank" instances you can change
the localconf.php in ...\source\dummy-4.2.x.zip (this is unzipped in the new
instance-directory after typo3 source is unzipped)