[Maypole] umlaut problem

Josef Chladek j.chladek@wirtschaftsblatt.at
Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:34:12 +0100


Am 24.01.2005 um 22:22 schrieb Simon Flack:

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>
> Josef Chladek wrote:
>> i'm fairly new to maypole, so maybe i've overlooked something in the=20=

>> configuration:
>> as you can see from my screenshot
>> http://www.volltext.net/umlaut.gif
>> there seems to be a problem when editing content that has non-ascii=20=

>> chars in it: altough the word 'G=F6sser' is displayed correctly in =
the=20
>> left upper part, within the text-input field the char '=F6' gets=20
>> scrambled - any idea? in my mysql db the word is in utf8...
>
> This post may be helpful:
> 	http://shrunk.net/4b41eef0-lists.netthink.co.uk
>
> The database is postgres, but there may be a similar option in mysql.
>
> HTH
> Simon

thanks simon, i downgraded to dbd 2.9003, applied the patch from Gaal=20
Yahas (see http://tinyurl.com/6w8pu), installed, changed my connect=20
setup to

    =20
BeerDB->setup('dbi:mysql:beer','beer','xxxxx',{mysql_enable_utf8=3D>1});

and everything works fine now!

thanks
josef