.. ================================================== .. FOR YOUR INFORMATION .. -------------------------------------------------- .. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- with BOM. .. include:: ../../Includes.txt .. _mysql: MySQL ^^^^^ .. _character-sets: Character Sets """""""""""""" Current versions of TYPO3 use UTF-8 encoding. You should make sure that MySQL uses UTF-8 as well. This is done most easily by checking that the new, empty database uses the character set UTF-8. In a database *with* content, all tables and those columns, which *have* a character set, must use UTF-8.