.. include:: /Includes.rst.txt .. index:: database, utf-8 .. _troubleshooting_database: ======== Database ======== MySQL ===== .. _character-sets: Character Set ------------- TYPO3 uses UTF-8 encoding, you will need to ensure that your instance of MySQL also uses UTF-8. When installing TYPO3 for the first time, you can select UTF-8 encoding when you create the database for the first time. For an existing database, you will have to set each table and column to use UTF-8.