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[patrickoswald Friend patrickoswaldJoin date: November 2011Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 4]

#174208

I have created a site based on Ja Mers Template (http://www.hellomister.de/ka-ro-show).
The problem is that most of the times (but not always) the german and other special characters like ä,ö,ü,é, á … show as ö, ä … i have installed the akeeba admin tools and set the database collation to utf-general-ci … but no change…

The problem most likely lies in the charset encoding…
sometimes the browser gets it right (uses UTF-8) and sometimes not (uses ISO 8859-1)…

Problem (most often the browser does not get it right)

Correct.. sometimes the browser gets it right..

I found this blog http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets helpful but dont know how to use this information to fix my site…

any suggestions?

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[pixelzombie Friend pixelzombieJoin date: August 2010Posts: 339Downloads:2Uploads:49 Thanks: 32 Thanked: 168 times in 107 posts]

#440576

Hi Patrick,

is it possible at your host to use the .htaccess file? You just have to rename the htaccess.txt (joomla root) to .htaccess and add

AddDefaultCharSet utf-8

Also you have to change the global configuration and set the mod_rewrite option to yes.

Maybe this helps.

Cheers

Frank

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[patrickoswald Friend patrickoswaldJoin date: November 2011Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 4]

#440789

Hi Frank…

I did as you recommended with the .htaccess-file and also changed the default charset at my webhosting and now it seems to work.
thanks.

[saminora Friend saminoraJoin date: March 2009Posts: 73Downloads:12Uploads:5 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#470610

Hi Frank,
thanx. On my site (ironis template) it worked too!
cheers
martin

[zisa Friend zisaJoin date: July 2008Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:2]

#481243

I have same issue,

When I edit my site, ja mers,
there is a problem in Turkish characters ‘ı’ and ‘ş’ they appear after save ‘?’
in Module Manager: Module Custom HTML

Waiting for help…

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[Stork11 Friend Stork11Join date: March 2011Posts: 2273Downloads:0Uploads:142 Thanks: 55 Thanked: 431 times in 393 posts]

#481450

Hello zisa,

Please try it with a default installation of Joomla (the installation downloaded from joomla.org) to check if issue still occurs or not. Because JA Mers stylesheet only affects front-end, the template got nothing to do in the backend. Please try this on default joomla installation first, so that we can rule out if its a JA issue.

Regards.

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