text with question marks

justdo

Hello everybody, I have a trouble with language localization. I have question marks with diamonds in there. How can I fix it?
(http://quatsch.cz/forum/)

vanilla version 2.3

hgtonight

Welcome to the community!

1. 2.3 is extremely unsuitable for production use.
2. Those question marks means the font used doesn't have the appropriate symbols to represent that character. Or the locale file was saved in an incompatible manner.

vrijvlinder

How can I fix it?

Use the proper version of Vanilla 2.1 and make sure you use the correct charset for your language .

justdo

So i installed vanilla 2.1 but I still have same problem.

vrijvlinder

what language and what charset is in the config.php ? Use UTF-8 ?

What theme ?

What plugins?

http://webmonkeyuk.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/how-to-avoid-character-encoding-problems-in-php/

http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets

justdo

I don't use any plugins. And I use UTF-8 (I hope so)

$Configuration['Garden']['Locale'] = 'cs-CZ';
$Configuration['Garden']['Theme'] = 'FlatVI';

vrijvlinder

try adding this one although this is the default, these have to do with the charset. Check in the database what you have stored.

$Configuration['Garden']['LocaleCodeset'] = 'UTF8';
$Configuration['Garden']['Charset']= 'utf-8';
$Configuration['Database']['ExtendedProperties']['Collate']     = 'utf8_unicode_ci';