v8 to v9 upgrade, character encoding problem?

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Ragnar Karlsson Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 12 December 2007 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ragnar Karlsson Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: v8 to v9 upgrade, character encoding problem? Posted: 12 December 2007 at 4:28pm
	Hi folks, I'm wondering if someone can help me. I have just completed an upgrade from v8 to v9 of a WebWizForum installation and found a problem with the output of certain characters. Particularly punctuation marks do not appear to render correctly, example here Has anyone experienced this? Is there a simple fix? Am I missing something obvious? Cheers Ragnar

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 December 2007 at 11:48am
	This is due to version 9 using UTF-8 character encoding as it supports more languages. What you will need to do is edit the file includes/setup_optionc_inc.asp and change the page encoding to Windows ISO.
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Ragnar Karlsson Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 12 December 2007 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ragnar Karlsson Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:20pm
	Hi -boRg-, I've just tried the many different European ISO's and none of these appear to work correctly. they replace the characters but with nonsense - eg the correct display of the word Cliché becomes Clichï¿½. Is there a way to use MS SQL to convert the existing posts to the more effective UTF-8 format? Cheers for any help in advance, R

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:42pm
	The one version 8 used was:- iso-8859-1 However any posts created under UTF-8 will have a different encoding, but changing it to the page encoding above will correctly show all your older posts correctly that were posted under version 8.
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Andersen Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: 07 July 2002 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 152	Post Options Post Reply Quote Andersen Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 December 2007 at 9:00pm
	Ragnar, iso-8859-1 works fine for the danish character set. This should work fine with the swedish ones as well.
	Greets Andersen

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