By Sanctus on

Hi, I just made a new install and can't post in Baltic character set. While message preview seems OK, it is not OK in the final result...
Even in this window I could not type ?"a dash" ⠯r "a cedilla" ஠. Just s^ and c^ seem ok. (obviously, not after I pressed on Preview) Any ideas?

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

What OS and browser? Is the character encoding in your browser set to Unicode UTF-8 when you view this page?

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Sanctus commented

I use internet explorer with UTF-8 enabled constantly.

after I type the message and click on preview, it is displayed correctly, but after SEND - it becomes garbled and is posted as garbled too....

aceeisuuz
ąčęėįšųūž

Sanctus

P.S. it works on drupal.org... but I see, only in comments it looks well. :/

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Sanctus commented

The best way that my friend found is this:

from mysqladmin export your db, open it with notepad2, replace everything which is not utf8, in my case, it was CHARSET=latin1 or COLLATE=latin1_swedish_ci with UTF8 and voila, here it is and it works.

At the same time it is possible to make necessary corrections to your DB if some of the text was in "wrong" encoding. Just don't forget to switch the right encoding in the notepad2 first - before opening the DB!

Sanctus

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cem kaan commented

I exported, replaced "latin1" in to "ut8" but mysql server send error message and couldn't import.
My instance of Drupal was installed by Fantastico http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastico_(web_hosting)
But After I started to read http://drupal.org/forum/fantastico-de-luxe I decided I better install it manually.