Hello Silverstripe Community and developers,
before I start I have to say that I'm without any knowledge in the different Charsets which makes me kind of crazy solving the following problem. For my Silverstripe Site I imported a lot of Data from a MSSQL Database into the Silverstripe MySQL Database, each record saved into a DataObject-Class. The data I used has alot of German umlaute and are saved in the ISO-8859-1 Charset. As you know Silverstripe uses the UTF-8 Charset as default for showing the pages. That makes my umlaute shown as question marks (white q.m. on black ground). To avoid this I changed the used Charset from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 and everything is shown properly, except of the Page Titles I entered in the CMS. A little example:
In phpMyAdmin, the german umlaut "ö", after saving it with the CMS, is shown as "ö", even the phpMyAdmin sites are shown with UTF-8. Changing the Charset with my browser to ISO-8859-1 won't help obviously, the letter is shown as "ö". Funnily enough, my imported data is shown correctly when I see the phpMyAdmin pages in UTF-8 and wrong when I set it to ISO-8859-1. Exactly vice-versa as the presentation of my Silverstripe site.
To see the letter shown properly in my Silverstripe site, I need to use the UTF-8 Charset. The only problem is, if I use UTF-8 my imported Data is shown wrong. You see, it's kind of like a vicious circle, and I have absolutely no idea how to get out of it.
I really hope someone is able to help me with that, I'm trying to find a solution for days now, and actually I have not even a clue why this problem really occurs.
Please help me with that one, I'm starting to go insane, thanks in advance.
FlorianH
