I have a problem with the swedish/norwegian characters å, ä, ö and ø who isn't showing as they are supposed to under my news articles (have no problems elsewhere on my website). For example in IE it shows "Postad av Mastah L?g, 19 november 2005"
(in english: "Posted by Mastah on Saturday, November 19, 2005")
This should be:
Postad av "Mastah Lördag, 19 november 2005".

Could anyone help me with this since I've search the forums but I cant figure out what to do!?

You can see for yourself here: www.danceaddict.nu/ind...ng=swedish

Edit: Just discovered that in Firefox it shows "Postad av Mastah L?rdag, 19 november 2005"

//Mastah Da n00b

i18n-l10n.com/News/art...sid=2.html

Could help you if this is an upgrade from a phpnuke site.

Thanks NEMENI for your quick reply! No, I'm not upgrading from a phpnuke site, I have upgraded from CPG-Nuke 8.2b to DF 9.0.6.1.
My webserver crashed two weeks ago and I had to restore the website from a backup. I upgraded Apache, PHP and MySQL to meet the reqs for running a Dragonfly website. Then I put a backup of the database (*.sql) back into MySQL and copied my website back into the webserver and everything worked. After that I updated from 8.2b to 9.0.6.1 and everything is working except for the date when an article is posted as described in my first post.

For me 8.2 worked without a glitch for a year, never had this kind of problem.

Any suggestions what to do next?

You probably need to use 9.x language files, remember to backup and then delete the old language files sitting on your website.

Well I did that from the start, so that can't be it. Yesterday I installed the norwegian language files and the same problems occur for character ø (it should say Lørdag, but in IE it shows L? and in Firefox L?rdag)...

So I'm confused... since these characters diplay ok everywhere else!

You could manually fix the problem modifing line 136 in modules/News/index.php to

Code::

$datetime = utf8_encode(formatDateTime($row['time'], _DATESTRING));

But i really start to beleive that is MySQL 4.0.x that cause this kind of problems ... ?

Thank you NanoCaiordo, this fixed it!
It's a strange error, I have it in one more place, when the Survey block doesn't have any surveys to show. There it displays ⇒ instead of ø in the message "Det er ingen sp㸲reunders㸫elser å vise" (There are no Surveys to display"). Maybe that has something to do with

Code::

$content = sprintf(_ERROR_NONE_TO_DISPLAY, strtolower(_SurveysLANG));

in block-survey.php?

Can I fix that in a similar way? (I tried but I'm a php newbie so I couldn't make it work...)

This is what you should get if you are using original Dragonfly language files

Code::

Det finns inga Undersökningar att visa

There are some differences that make me think that someone edited main.php handling it in a not proper way, loosing the encoding.

Hi there,

I've got similar problem.

I've done backup for whole database and then I've moved to different host-provider.

Now when I've added tables (phpMyAdmin) I get some strange characters, such as: ë , ç, Ë and Ç

I've got option characters set of file setup as UTF8, but still doesn't work.

Have you got any idea how can I solve this problem?

Thanks.

More info about previos and actual verions of MySQL would be appreciated

but i guess you have switched from 4.0.X to 4.1.X

Please provide us more info, thank you.

Hi there & thanks fro reply

I dont know which version I used previosly.
Now i use MySQL 4.1.12-standard-log

Thanks.

Perhaps it's just your Apache installation. I had the same problem when "AddDefaultCharset" was set to ISO-8859-1, but I just changed this to UTF-8 and it solved the problem.

Thats why we already use in .htaccess (cvs)

Code::

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

.. if you dont have that just add that line at the end of your main .htaccess file

I now this is an old post sorry but I couldn't find anything else close to what was wrong.
I am having the same problem as black
I have AddDefaultCharset utf-8 in my htaccess but every time I download the database I get the strange characters replacing quotations, bullets and some other symbols. Can someone please tell me how to make it stop

• becomes •
’ becomes ’
" becomes “
.......

PHP version 4.4.4
MySQL version 4.1.22-standard

Thanks

Crashwave what is your website url?