gibberish at homepage in Chinese

[jay2015]

Could anyone help me,please?

Zencart v1.5.4 and installed chinese patch simplified utf8. I've imported v1.5.1 data and changed all web file Simplified Chinese text to traditional Chinese.

But I found there is gibberish at the homepage

i.e. New Product For "???"


and

Monthly Specials For "???"


I've changed all collation to utf8_generic_ci from default latin1_swedish_ci


And when installing v1.5.4, is it possible to change the default collation to utf8_generic_ci instead of latin1_swedish_ci? I cannot change it even I choose to default utf8 when installing.

Thank you very much in advance!

[Thannaree]

I've imported v1.5.1 data and changed all web file Simplified Chinese text to traditional Chinese.

What do you mean by that?

[jay2015]

Some of their characters are different. In my city, people use Traditional Chinese, so I have to change all Simplified Chinese characters to Traditional.

[Thannaree]

Are these ???? supposed to be month names?

[jay2015]

Are these ???? supposed to be month names?

Yes.
In English patch, it should be "New Products For September & "Monthly Specials For September". But the month name cannot be decoded properly in Chinese patch!

[Thannaree]

In files includes/languages/schinese.php and admin/includes/languages/schinese.php

$locales = array('zh_CN', 'zh_CN.utf8', 'zh');

Could you try adding locales for traditional?

I am pulling these from Google:
Hong Kong: 'zh_HK', 'zh_HK.utf8',
Traditional: 'zh_HANT', 'zh_HANT.utf8',
Taiwan: 'zh_TW', 'zh_TW.utf8',