[Phpmyadmin-devel] UTF8 and connection encoding

[Sebastian Mendel]

On 08.02.2009 16:02, Sebastian Mendel wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> if someone changes connection setting in main.php from UTF-8 to
> something else, all content from DB will be delivered with this encoding
> to users Browser, but we say the document is UTF-8 and strings coming
> from us (language files) are in UTF-8
>
> so we end up with a mixed encoding in the HTML output
>
>
> there are two options:
>
> - setting PHP output encoding
>
> http://php.net/manual/en/mbstring.http.php
>
> do not know if this takes care of already mixed encodings
>
>
> - do not allow switching connection charset
>
> why is this required anyway?
>
>
> i would vote for dropping, as is see no requirement for this, any modern
> browser should be UTF-8 capable
>
>
> any comments suggestions?

also see bug #2565948

https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2565948&group_id=23067&atid=377408

-- 
Sebastian Mendel