mention possibility of broken utf8 characters with MYSQL_CHARSET (refs #289)

diff --git a/config.php-dist b/config.php-dist
index df12d8f9db8d91e98fae4abee09d5224e50fc05b..89135389f23d83ab4a896d25039796fff55e8e48 100644 (file)
--- a/config.php-dist
+++ b/config.php-dist
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@
        // Enable support for interface translations
 
        define('MYSQL_CHARSET', 'UTF8');
-       // Connection charset for MySQL.
+       // Connection charset for MySQL. If you have a legacy database and/or experience
+       // garbage unicode characters with this option, try setting it to a blank string.
 
        define('DEFAULT_UPDATE_METHOD', 0);
        // Which feed parsing library to use as default: