Hello there!
After another day of playing with my new toy (easyengine) I found out that when using the prebuilt setup via ee create wp-site with w3tc and then configuring W3TC Page Cache option according to the provided tutorial here on rtCamp, it will generate the cache files with incompatible character encodings. This might only be visible in foreign languages, other than english.
The tutorial says, that we should set Page Cache to Disk: Enhanced. But this causes the incorrect output.
If I set it to Disk: Basic this faulty behaviour is gone. My desired charset is UTF8
And in my opinion, this should also be standard db charset for easy engine mysql setup… right after installing the wp tables for my site, they were all latin1 encoded. latin1 isn’t capable of german “umlaute” such as ä ö ü or special characters like ß or simply this: `.
In general the WordPress Codex recommend UTF8_general_ci collation because UTF8 charset supports most languages. Especially for sites using plugins like WPML with several language setups, this is a must.
Is there a special reason why the db is set up with latin1?
Also I was wondering why the ee table and dbs are all InnoDB engined. My old site’s db was MyISAM. When importing my sql dump, I had to manually convert mydomain_com db to the correct utf8 charset and utf8_general_ci collation and then convert it the tables to InnoDB, to achieve some kind of consistency.
