[horde] How encoding works in horde?

[Vilius Šumskas]

> > I mean PHP and the operating system, namely the iconv and mbstring
> > extensions. I didn't write anything about force.
> >
> 
> 
> iconv installed, mbstring have no idea, it must be part of the php and
> I'm using php5 from debian packages, so I suppose it is there.
> 
> Well, so I have set utf-8 in horde sql charset section, forced the
> creation of horde database to utf8 (modified create.mysql.sql scrpit
> from horde/examples directory and turba is working fine with my
> national
> characters, the same with linux console but the problem is with
> phpmyadmin. This beast in spite of using polish utf-8 at login screen
> does not display national characters. ups... phpmyadmin is 2.9.1.1. Do
> you have working phpmyadmin with national characters (utf8)? I have
> seen
> some mail threads showing problems with phpmyadmin.

That's because Horde doesn't support any charsets on database level. What
you see through phpmyadmin is raw data. Check the this mailing list archives
(or was it i18n at lists.horde.org) for possible workaround and explanation.

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