diff --git a/typo3/sysext/core/Documentation/Changelog/master/Feature-74038-ReportForCheckingDatabaseCharacterSet.rst b/typo3/sysext/core/Documentation/Changelog/master/Feature-74038-ReportForCheckingDatabaseCharacterSet.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a61212fe12f84a9aadfa26e016e8915ee3925885
--- /dev/null
+++ b/typo3/sysext/core/Documentation/Changelog/master/Feature-74038-ReportForCheckingDatabaseCharacterSet.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+============================================================
+Feature: #74038 - Report for checking database character set
+============================================================
+
+Description
+===========
+
+If a database has e.g. latin1 as default character set, new tables or fields created by TYPO3 will be created
+with this default charset as utf-8 is not enforced.
+A report has been added that checks the default charset and warns administrators if a wrong charset is used.
+
+Impact
+======
+
+If the default database character set is not utf-8, the report warns administrators about a wrong charset.
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diff --git a/typo3/sysext/reports/Classes/Report/Status/ConfigurationStatus.php b/typo3/sysext/reports/Classes/Report/Status/ConfigurationStatus.php
index cdc9474d7555ec945e6552f6945756534971b5aa..e06b064d2d164a459fba026431ad7b5491721c3d 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/reports/Classes/Report/Status/ConfigurationStatus.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/reports/Classes/Report/Status/ConfigurationStatus.php
@@ -286,13 +286,13 @@ class ConfigurationStatus implements StatusProviderInterface
         $statusValue = $this->getLanguageService()->getLL('status_ok');
 
         if ($key !== 'character_set_database') {
-            $message = sprintf($this->getLanguageService()->getLL('status_MysqlDatabaseCharacterSet_CheckFailed'),$key);
+            $message = sprintf($this->getLanguageService()->getLL('status_MysqlDatabaseCharacterSet_CheckFailed'), $key);
             $severity = ReportStatus::WARNING;
             $statusValue = $this->getLanguageService()->getLL('status_checkFailed');
         }
         // also allow utf8mb4
         if (substr($value, 0, 4) !== 'utf8') {
-            $message = sprintf($this->getLanguageService()->getLL('status_MysqlDatabaseCharacterSet_Unsupported'),$value);
+            $message = sprintf($this->getLanguageService()->getLL('status_MysqlDatabaseCharacterSet_Unsupported'), $value);
             $severity = ReportStatus::ERROR;
             $statusValue = $this->getLanguageService()->getLL('status_wrongValue');
         } else {