Hello, I am in the final stages of re-building my website and upgrading it to 1.5.1. I've followed all the necessary steps and merged my modifications and manually amended everything. I've done this in a demo site away from my live store and we have this week carried out final testing and all seems hopeful. I was planning to do the migration to the LIVE site tonight but I had a doubt in my mind about something I saw for the DB_TYPE. There appears to be a new variable/property in the configure.php file for 1.5.1 that sets the DB_TYPE to UTF8... However my current 1.3.9 database is defined as latin_swedish_ci... I need to understand the relevance of the DB_TYPE parameter in the configure.php file shipped with 1.5.1, as I don't have this parameter in my current LIVE configure.php.

1. Do I need the DB_TYPE setting in configure.php.
2. Does it matter what the DB_TYPE setting is actually set to vs. the actual collation of the underlying database?

Here's hoping for an answer please.

Cheers

Ross