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Charset and Collation

Asked by David Forés 3 years ago Last activity 3 years ago

Why are SP Page Builder tables created with "utf8" character set instead of "utf8mb4" like the rest of Joomla tables?

For example:

https://ibb.co/2tqwTbJ

This causes the system to use the "utf8_general_ci" collation for text fields in those tables, instead of the "utf8mb4_unicode_ci" collation used in Joomla, which may be a problem on multi-language sites with special characters.

https://ibb.co/Dwhxyvf

3 replies

Toufiq Senior Staff

Hi there,

I appreciate you reaching out. I sincerely apologize for this oversight. We set it for global. But, If you need utf8mb4_unicode_ci then you can create a database before install Joomla.

-Thanks

David Forés Asked this

Hi Toufiq,

Thank you for your reply.

Creating a database before installing Joomla is not enough, because in the SQL scripts to create the SP Page Builder tables, the charset "utf8" is specified and therefore, although the database is "utf8mb4", the tables end up being created with what has been forced in the script.

I already know how to fix this situation by modifying the scripts before installing, but I would like to know if this issue will be fixed in the next version.

Thanks.

Toufiq Senior Staff

We will think about it. But, At this moment not possible. Thanks

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