[turba] Turba and character set encoding

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Piotr Legiecki <piotrlg at sci.pam.szczecin.pl>:

> Hi
>
> I'm upgrading from horde2/turba 1.2 to horde3/turba 2.x and mysql 4.x to
> mysql 5.x at the same time. One of the problems I have encountered is
> bad national characters display. In my old setup it was ok (iso-8859-2),
> when upgraded to horde3/mysql5 the polish national characters
> disappeared (were incorrectly displayed). To be more specific the polish
> characters are ok when I display them using phpmyadmin or mysql cli.
>  From turba interface they are bad. When I UPDATE (using sql query form
> mysql cli) some data using national characters they are ok showing under
> cli,  but badly under turba.
> OK, first I have to manually
> mysql> set names 'latin2';
> before those chracters are displayed properly.
>
> My horde3 setup is localised ok, the letters I'm sending with IMP have
> good encoding.
>
> So it looks like mysql is fine from cli, but not so fine from turba
> point of view.
>
> I'v spend all day experimenting with this and still have no idea how to
> tell mysql to be nice to my turba ;-(

Have you made sure you have the correct charset set in the global SQL  
configuration?  Administration->Setup->Horde->Database Tab


Thanks,
mike

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