v8 to v9 upgrade, character encoding problem?
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Topic: v8 to v9 upgrade, character encoding problem?
Posted By: Ragnar Karlsson
Subject: v8 to v9 upgrade, character encoding problem?
Date 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, http://forum.blpublishing.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2530 - example here
Has anyone experienced this? Is there a simple fix? Am I missing something obvious?
Cheers
Ragnar
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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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Posted By: Ragnar Karlsson
Date 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 Clich�.
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
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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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Posted By: Andersen
Date 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.
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Greets
Andersen
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