I have now installed Ckeditor and done more testing but no change.

I have been through all the files in what I believe is my website template (includes/template/my_template01) including the common, CSS and templates folders. I could not find text in the files that was connected to character sets...

I am just wondering... In the templates folder there are three templates, classic, my_template01, template_default.

Is it correct to have all three?

I notice that the template_default has many more items in it than my_template01. I know that the files in my_template are the are for mods I have made...

Perhaps one the files in the template_default is what is causing the problem...

Below are what I believe are the pertinent settings for each of the php files in question. Is there something I have missed? Should there be anything additional?

Thanks in advance!

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admin/includes/languages/japanese.php

mb_language('Japanese');
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
mb_http_output("UTF-8");

// EMAIL config
define('EMAIL_CHARSET', 'ISO-2022-JP');
define('EMAIL_ENCODING', '7bit');
define('EMAIL_MIMEHEADER', 'B');
define('EMAIL_IS_MULTIBYTE', TRUE);

// Global entries for the <html> tag
define('HTML_PARAMS','dir="ltr" lang="ja"');

// charset for web pages and emails
define('CHARSET', 'utf-8');

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includes/languages/japanese.php

// look in your $PATH_LOCALE/locale directory for available locales..
@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'ja_JP.UTF-8');
mb_language('Japanese');
mb_internal_encoding("utf-8");
mb_http_output("utf-8");

// EMAIL config
define('EMAIL_CHARSET', 'utf-8');
define('EMAIL_ENCODING', '7bit');
define('EMAIL_MIMEHEADER', 'B');
define('EMAIL_IS_MULTIBYTE', TRUE);

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includes/languages/my_template01/japanese.php

mb_language('Japanese');
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
mb_http_output("UTF-8");

// EMAIL config
define('EMAIL_CHARSET', 'UTF-8');
define('EMAIL_ENCODING', '7bit');
define('EMAIL_MIMEHEADER', 'B');
define('EMAIL_IS_MULTIBYTE', TRUE);

// charset for web pages and emails
define('CHARSET', 'utf-8');