1. My MySQL database does not support UTF-8. Do I have a problem?
(FAQs/General)

No you don't. Versions of MySQL lower than 4.1 do not have built in UTF-8 support. However, Joomla! 1.5 has made provisions for backward compatibility and is able to use UTF-8 on older databases. Let the ...

2. What happened to the locale setting?
(FAQs/Current Users)

This is now defined in the Language [lang].xml file in the Language metadata settings. If you are having locale problems such as dates do not appear in your language for example, you might want to check/edit ...