TYPO3 Core

localconf.php
// always use utf-8
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] = 'utf-8';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['setDBinit'] = 'SET NAMES utf8;';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['UTF8filesystem'] = 'utf-8';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['t3lib_cs_convMethod'] = 'mbstring';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['t3lib_cs_utils'] = 'mbstring';

with this there appear strange chars in the output of the search...

has already been solved in the good old years
http://typo3.toaster-schwerin.de/typo3_english/2007_10/msg00015.html

the line has a little bit shifted but it's still there...
for easy handling here is a patch

(issue imported from #M9989)