I get the same problem ONLY if I'm browsing my site in english and saving a message as italian... but if I'm browsing my site in italian language I had not problems with accented letters (((I think becouse english does'nt have accented letters so will be loaded as ANSI instead of UTF-8 so no special charts decoding will be done while saving into the database, hope I'm not wrong)))

Sorry for posting 4 mounts after the last post but may be this will help someone without the need of modify the code ... cheers

I have the same problem on my site (Chinese) and find the same solution before I browse this forum.

I did an extensive search of the whole package and find utf8_encode is used only in 7 places:

1. mainfile.php(462): themecenterbox($title, utf8_encode($content));

2. mainfile.php(464): themesidebox($title, utf8_encode($content), $bid);

3. mainfile.php(830): return utf8_encode($datetime);

4. mainfile.php(966): $title2 = utf8_encode($title2);

5. includes\messagebox.php(36): $title = utf8_encode($title);

6. includes\messagebox.php(39): $content = utf8_encode($content);

7. modules\Your_Account\index.php(401): echo "<center><b>"._HEADLINESFROM." <a href=\"http://$siteurl[0]\" target=\"new\">".utf8_encode($title)."</a></b></center><br />".utf8_encode($content)."";
Found 7 occurrence(s) in 4 file(s)

This is definitely something wrong, because there are far more places handling text throughout the system. News, Articles, Stories every other places are handling utf-8 text well without the use of this function. Also, the first occurance in mainfile (see above) converts $content but not $title makes the mistake more obvious.

I am going to remove all the utf8_encode function call in my site. However, I wonder why nobody form cpgnuke team stand out to say something officially to confirm this is the right approach and commit to fix the problem in later release, even this problem has been hanging for months

Can I expect some reply "officially"

Thanks

Yes remove each call, this has been fixed in cvs for the upcoming release