I have now changed everything that I could change to UTF-8, except for the "missing" items as noted in my previous post.

Basically, all the menus now appear correct, including the breadcrumb area, the text in the Search Box, Who's Online etc.

However, in the store (what the customer sees) the text for each of the products (titles and descriptions) is unreadable. If I change the browser encoding to Japanese(EUC) everything becomes readable!

So I went to the admin area and tried doing the same. It doesn't matter what browser encoding I use (UTF-8, Japanese(EUC) etc), none of the Japanese is readable!

But then I noticed that ONE single item WAS READABLE which struck me as really strange. I checked if that was readable in the store/customer area and it wasn't. I tried all the different encoding options in my browser but none worked for that particular item!

As a test, in the admin area, I deleted the unreadable title and description of another product and replaced it with Japanese and saved it. It became readable in the admin area but in the store/customer area it became unreadable regardless of the browser encoding I chose...

I am not sure what to make of this...

It seems that the data is encoded in Japanese (EUC) and as the admin area is set to UTF-8 it cannot be read.

If I add new items in the admin area, they become readable in the admin area, but in the browser side, they cannot be read regardless of the browers encoding.

I feel like I am really close to getting this solved, but I really don't know enough to decide what I need to do.

I am looking forward to hearing any ideas on what I might try next.

Thanks...