[horde] How encoding works in horde?

[Piotr Legiecki]

Hi

I'v been strugling with horde 3.1.3, mysql 5.0 to understand how 
encoding works there. the problem is, that I can't get properly working 
polish national characters (iso8859-2). Horde is set to:
$conf['sql']['charset'] = 'iso-8859-2';
is it enough?

my linux console is set to iso-8859-2. When I create horde database 
(this is done by debian/stable package) it does not ask me what encoding 
I want to use for this database, and the create.mysql.sql script just 
does not mention anything about encoding. Should I force/set encoding of 
horde database during creation?

horde itself (its www interface) is working in utf8 and it is talkig to 
me in polish very well. But when I add some content to database (turba 
address book, kronolith event) and the page reloads my polish characters 
from that content disappear ('?' instead).

I was trying to set encoding in database, horde to different values 
(utf8, latin1) to understand how it works and where the conversion 
process looses the encoding but it is magic to me.

btw horde2/mysql4 worked ok on my old system.

1. I whish some good soul wold explain me about this encoding issues
2. What is the best aproach of using horde in non english environment? 
Should I set the database to latin2 or leave it with default (and 
default for my setup is latin1) values and let horde deal with it?

I'v seen one thread about the same problem, but the solution was more 
like hack (hardcode something):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.horde.user/18539/focus=18540
I hope there is better way.

Regards
Piotr