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    Default Re: How to make UMLAUTS work with ZenCart?

    Hey!

    Today is my first day with Zen Cart and I've had the same problem you've reported here.

    I migrated an old OSCommerce store (English, German and Romanian) to Zen Cart. I had to import the products twice, because the install script for ZC does not force UTF-8 in the database (I don't understand why in hell it doesn't do this). Then, after installing the German language pack, I added the following line to the includes/classes/db/query_factory.php file:
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    mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); 
    right after the connection to the database is made. Now the German product names and descriptions display just fine.

    I've been working as a web developer a few years now, but I haven't taken a look at open source e-commerce solutions for some time now. I'm sad to see that they still need to go a long way compared to other free web-based software available today.

    Hope this helps.

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    Default Re: How to make UMLAUTS work with ZenCart?

    Quote Originally Posted by cimi View Post
    Today is my first day with Zen Cart
    Welcome.

    Quote Originally Posted by cimi View Post
    ...the install script for ZC does not force UTF-8 in the database (I don't understand why in hell it doesn't do this).

    ...

    ... open source ... I'm sad to see that they still need to go a long way compared to other free web-based software available today.
    As you hang around here awhile, you'll see that there is a huge rewrite of the core code taking place, and one of the things being done is UTF-8 out-of-the-box.
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