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By kordou on
Hi
I am have uploades the drupal 6.9 on one server with cpanel,
when i am tryin gto write greek letters I can't wee them. instead i see ???????????????????
whow can i resolve this ?
thank you
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Is this happening with the
Is this happening with the default Garland theme? Or is it some custom theme?
If the problem is not the theme, then your database is probably using a latin1 character set and not utf8. If it is a new site, it is easier to start from the beginning.
Assuming that you have MySQL 4.1 or newer, go to your database with phpmyadmin, drop all teables, go to the Operations tab and set the database collation to utf8_general_ci.
The, using FTP, delete your sites/default/settings.php file, replace it with a new copy of default.settings.php, and browse to your site to start the installation again. (If Drupal has write-protected the settings.php file and you can't delete it, you will need to change its permissions to 644 and the permissions of the containing directory "default" to 755.)
If this was done with some automatic installler which your host provides in cpanel, consider doing a real Drupal installation by uploading Drupal yourself.
Uh Oh
What about situations where there's already a lot of content on the site?
I'm currently putting together an English/Greek site. I've been loading all of the English content first, manually, and then planned to start translations. But now that I'm ready to begin with translating, I'm finding that everything I type comes out as "?????????????".
I'm using a custom template, but after reading the post above I switched the template to Garland and tested it... still all question marks.
Anyone have any ideas how to correct this without having to start over?
It is easy to fix the
It is easy to fix the database if you still have only English text. I am assuming that you have MySQL 4.1 or newer (this method won't work in older versions).
Go to your database with MySQL, check the character set and collation
- of the whole database
- of each table
- of each individual column.
Wherever you see latin1_swedish_ci or some other latin collation, go to the Operations tab and change it to utf8_general_ci.
Because this is a lot of work, you can do something else instead:
- Take a backup of your database. Examine it with a good text editor. If you find anything "latin1" in it change it to "utf8".
- Empty your the database (drop all tables), go to the Operations tab and set its default collation to utf8_general_ci.
- Load your database backup.
Now the character set and collation should be correct everywhere.
Script
I came across this PHP script and it worked perfectly for me. I saved it to a PHP file and pasted the results into an SQL script.