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:
PHP Code:
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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