[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #3184: UTF8 DB connections preferred

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#3184: UTF8 DB connections preferred
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 Reporter:  agharbeia                            |       Owner:
                                                 |  markjaquith
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:
Component:  Administration                       |     Version:  2.0.4
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:  duplicate
 Keywords:  DB connection encoding UTF8 needs-   |     Focuses:
  patch                                          |
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Comment (by sharoncyt07ac):

 Is it feasible to implement an option in WordPress to change the encoding
 of the database connection, considering the default 'latin1' encoding used
 by many MySQL servers can cause issues for non-Latin-script blogs?

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3184#comment:9>
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