Bug#597652: redmine: In some contexts accented characters don't display correctly

Hi, Jérémy, MySQL 5.1 defaults to Latin-1 and the config files in Squeeze don't apparently override it. So, yes, MySQL is not UTF-8 in Squeeze. So as a minimum, the install script should make sure that the default character set of the redmine database is UTF-8. And, to me at least, this sounds

Bug#597652: redmine: In some contexts accented characters don't display correctly

Hi Jérémy, I have now confirmed that the problem is related to the database encoding. Here's what I did: I changed the default character encoding of MySQL to UTF-8 (from the Debian default of Latin-1) by adding the following lines to the mysql configuration: [mysqld] collation_server=utf8_unicod

Bug#597652: redmine: In some contexts accented characters don't display correctly

Hi Jérémy, I usually use Opera on WinXP but I occasionally cross-check things on Iceweasel or Epiphany on Debian. I tried setting the Encoding to UTF-8 (from automatic) but it did not help. I also tried creating a task with one of these "problem characters" in its title and descriptor and it s