language utf8 working and not working

[marieAA]

I`ve also figured out so far that anything that I type in through Admin such as the category names and such, the caracters show as they should... it`s basically everything coming out of my language files that`s misbehaving.

[torvista]

anything that I type in through Admin such as the category names and such, the caracters show as they should

er, not in my browser. I see corrupt category names which come from the db, and corrupt text from the language files.There are errors whichever encoding you use which means you have multiple problems...hence your difficulty in fixing them.
Install a new copy of Zen Cart to play with, drop in your french files and check EVERYTHING displays ok. If not, find an dfix the encoding of the offending file.
Once all is fixed, copy them back to your shop and check they STILL all display ok.

Then, look at the databse connection db_charset as explained in this thread:
http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...RSET-in-v1-3-9
and ensure your collation is utf-8 on all your db tables.

THEN correct manually through the admin the corrupt text that displays in the product descriptions and categories.

[marieAA]

I will do as you advise... but so I can understand, what browser are you using and do the categories show like this:

Cat�gories


Cours-> (4)

Broderie Machine (2)

Courtepointe

Couture (2)

Crochet

Broderie à la Machine

Courtepointe

Couture

Machines-> (1)

Tricot & Crochet->

Certificat Cadeau (1)


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Tous les Produits ...

Sp�ciaux ...

[marieAA]

I guess I`m asking if this part here:

Tricot & Crochet->

does it show like that for you?

Because I take the time to view my site in both IE and Firefox to make sure I do right in both... but now I`m getting scared that I should do it differently. Knowing your browser I guess will give me one more option.

[marieAA]

ok I did as advised... installed in a new folder... then changed one file... just one file and oops... everything goes wrong again... the file is

includes/languages/english.php... so I went back and put the original english file and just change the define categories to CATÉGORIES... and I get a corrupted caracter on the sidebox Categories.

I`m getting really confused here. I thought that v.1.5.1 was utf8 but I guess it isn`t... or I`m understanding this all wrong. So I`ll try once again with changing the en_US to utf8 and see what happens unless you advise otherwise.

thanks for your help. truly appreciated.

and sorry if I sound like a whiner... don`t mean to...

but just to clear up things... I should be spelling Catégories and not Catégories... right?

[marieAA]

the problem is mostly fixed thanks for Torvista... now, the text gets corrupted only when I log in as a customer so I will keep on searching.