Hi,

I have little bit similar problem. I transferred an old database from 1.3.7 When using old 1.3.7 it worked fine on new server, after I upgraded to 1.5 and added additonal language pack conatining umlauts it wrecked umlauts.

Db look like it's using table encoding isolatin 1 swedish exept new admin_ tables are UTF-8. When browsing with phpmyadmin data is ok, umlauts & all scandinavian letters showing

so umlauts are like :
À-> should be ä
Both in navigation and body text. Tried several fixes but nothing helps.

I am also using old template from 1.3.7 But I think that's not the problem, Tried default template with same issue. Something in the new 1.5 bricks the char encoding. Perhaps that .htaccess files that are added for security?

So is there any easy(or difficult but bulletproof) fix for this?

I am on a tight schedual, by tomorrow I should be launching the site.

Thanks in advance.