Maybe useful to check in installroutine of PW the PHP-default_charset ?

[horst]

Hi,

I have had some (more) trouble to get started with PW  :-(

In my php.ini the default_charset was set to 'ISO-88591' or something similar.

So, as the DB uses utf8 and the pages are delivered in utf8, php is required to use it too.

If not you can run into errors when try to save strings with e.g. german umlaute: äöü ÄÖÜ

     Incorrect string value: '\xFCchte ...' for column 'data' at row 1

I'm not sure if this was checked with the install routine, but I have seen only green lines

Maybe this could be done to avoid some hassle to users with a setup other than utf8.

Or it maybe an option to add "ini_set('default_charset','utf8');" somewhere at the top of index.php,

and to be very very sure (also for paranoics like me ) one can set and check it:

    ini_set('default_charset','utf8');
    $php_use_utf8 = strtolower(trim(ini_get('default_charset')))=='utf8' ? true :  false;
 

Ok, now I can start try out that wonderful CMS

[ryan]

I deal with servers set for iso-8859-1 quite regularly, and have never had an issue. PHP isn't exactly UTF-8 native, so we basically treat everything as if it were UTF-8 even if PHP doesn't. But there must be some instances where it does matter, as you've found. I will add the init_set('default_charset', 'utf8') to our initialization. Thanks for pointing this out. 

[Manfred62]

just a thought about install routine: what about a select option for the date/timezone?

In the moment you have to change it manually in the /site/config.php

[ryan]

Makes sense to me. I'll add that.