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FUDForum charset problems [message #30050] Tue, 31 January 2006 16:29 Go to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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Hi,

I've dumped a MySQL 4.0.24 DB and loaded the data into 4.1.12. The charset is now latin1, but accented characters are messed up.

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Best regards.

Frank

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Re: FUDForum charset problems [message #30051 is a reply to message #30050] Tue, 31 January 2006 16:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Change the character set to something other then latin, a charset that supports accented chars.

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Re: FUDForum charset problems [message #30052 is a reply to message #30051] Tue, 31 January 2006 17:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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OK, maybe it isn't the MySQL Character set:

OLD Server: 
mysql> show variables like 'character_set';
+---------------+--------+
| Variable_name | Value  |
+---------------+--------+
| character_set | latin1 |
+---------------+--------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)


NEW server is: Character Set=latin1, Collation=latin1_swedish_ci

Does PHP have a charset as well?

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Frank

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Re: FUDForum charset problems [message #30053 is a reply to message #30052] Tue, 31 January 2006 17:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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PHP does not care about the charset.

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Re: FUDForum charset problems [message #30054 is a reply to message #30052] Tue, 31 January 2006 17:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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Very strange. The data really is the same on both servers:

OLD Server: 
mysql> select location from fud26_users where location like 'Qu% , Canada';
+------------------+
| location         |
+------------------+
| Québec , Canada |
+------------------+
1 row in set (0.16 sec)


New Server: 
mysql> select location from fud26_users where location like 'Qu% , Canada';
+------------------+
| location         |
+------------------+
| Québec , Canada |
+------------------+
1 row in set (0.15 sec)

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Re: FUDForum charset problems [message #30055 is a reply to message #30054] Tue, 31 January 2006 18:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What charset did you set in the forum's theme settings?

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Re: FUDForum charset problems [message #30056 is a reply to message #30054] Tue, 31 January 2006 18:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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OK, problem fixed by changing the HTML charset from: 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15">

To: 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">


If anyone can explain why this is working, please let me know!

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Re: FUDForum charset problems [message #30057 is a reply to message #30056] Tue, 31 January 2006 18:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Probably because the characters used were encoded using UTF-8.

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Re: FUDForum charset problems [message #30058 is a reply to message #30057] Tue, 31 January 2006 18:57 Go to previous message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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I guess.

Thank you very much for your assistance!

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