By steven9 on

Hi guys,

I need to hard code some text and some hyperlinks into page.tpl.php and template.php that contain special characters (non-latin or non-English letters) . As soon as I save the files the characters become gibberish and so they appear on the website, although, if I retrieve from the database text with such characters they display fine.

Please give me a suggestion.

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bojanz’s picture

bojanz commented

You aren't saving the files with the proper encoding (UTF-8).
Every more advanced text editor has this option (usually in the File -> Save As dialog, for example).

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steven9 commented

bojanz, thank you very much for the answer. I went to notepad and saved the page.tpl.php file again with UTF-8 and uploaded it. I don't get the gibberish anymore, now I get just a string of question marks. something like this ???? ? ?? ??? ???????, ?? ????? ?? ???? how can I solve the question marks? Inside the node content the characters do appear just fine.

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steven9 commented

Never mind, my bad! It works. Thank you so much bojanz, your solution works.

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princechrisvic commented

I'm having the same problem with specials characters. They appear ???????. How can I make it to display well. Thanks