I saw at <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Fixing_Corrupt_Database_Encoding">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Fixing_Corrupt_Database_Encoding</a> that mythtv 0.22 can only handle latin1 connections to the MySQL database - but uses UTF8 internally (Actually it writes UTF8 into the database).<br>
<br>I don't understand why MythTV doesn't use UTF8 all the way - so no encoding/decoding is required when talking to the database?<br>Also, putting UTF8 text in a latin1 database is in my opinion wrong... Other clients will be unable to read the data correctly (like phpMyAdmin for example).<br>
In my opinion latin1 text is for latin1 databases - and UTF8 text is for UTF8 databases...<br><br>Surely I must be missing something here?<br><br>What is the reason for breaking the database - instead of fixing MythTV?<br>
<br><br>Kind Regards<br>Glenn Sommer<br>