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Umlauts replaced with "?"


dwood

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V10.0.3:  I am having trouble with entering umlaut letters (ü, ö, ä) into text.  I have tried &uuml and Alt+0252 with initial acceptance but then when I save and refresh the umlaut letter is replaced with a "?".  This seems to be somewhat random but eventually the all umlaut letters are replaced with a "?".  After doing some searching on this Forum I came across the recommendation to check the phpMyAdmin database to be sure all the collation is the same ... it is: "latin1_swedish_ci"; and then check the Language Folder in TNG : was English and Character Set: ISO-8859-1;  which I changed to Language: English UTF8 and Character Set: UTF-8.  Same result, umlaut characters replaced with a "?".  Any suggestions?  Thanks, Doug

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You probably should use collation utf8_general_ci, but you can't just change the database collation, you also have to change it for all text fields (I remember using a SQL query  for someting similar in the past). Back up your database first!

Eric

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Update:  problem solved so far!  I rebooted my system and now the umlauts appear to be "sticking around".  I'm not going to make any additional changes since I need to upgrade to the newest version.  Thank you both for your help!  Doug

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