Character set/database collation/date settings
Following a recent migration of my test website from 1.39h to 1.5 I am having a few issues with the format of various characters in my site.
I installed 1.5 from scratch and created a new database.
I then carefully merged my 1.39h based template with the 1.5 files, checking that the changes I used in 1.39h would not clash with newer 1.5 versions...I used winmerge to manage this.
Im now finding the following problems with my new 1.5 site.
- date of birth is stored as yyyy-mm-dd in the database/displayed as dd/dd/yyyy on the my account store settings.
- Pound symbols in my confirmation emails (text version) seem to display the sterling £ symbol incorrectly(appearing as = £xx.xx), despite setting this correctly in my admin/currency and email config settings
My site http://test.italianhampers.co.uk/ind...e=account_edit
Im not sure if these things are related. Im using an override file of the english.php to get the date format as I want on the customers date of birth, I followed
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=401
I noticed the collation settings on my database are UTF8_general_ci , does this need to be set in my english.php file too? (instead of 'en_GB.ISO_8859-1' as per the guide above)
Thanks for any help
Andy
Re: Character set/database collation/date settings
I might be able to answer my own question here...
Found courtesy of http://www.picaflor-azul.com/index.p...oducts_id=1090
CHANGE-136 on new installs, DB_CHARSET now defaults to UTF8, not latin1
My old 1.39h database backup is set to create tables with
DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COLLATE=latin1_general_ci
Do I need to alter my english.php file to match the UTF-8 encoding? or do I alter the database collation settings? (or neither!)
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