perssontm/frontend — comment on commit 7cd3f8d222621164d08cdc1167f6b7d99e894973
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By perssontm:

Not sure if that would do it in mysql-base, depending on what you like to achieve. Existing installations with this problem will not be fixed when upgrading if placing it there. Fixing it with mysql only is tricky, but running through it with php and run utf8_encode/utf8_decode on it and store it back(with the proper encoding set for the connection) will fix it.