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    Default gibberish at homepage in Chinese

    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 "???"
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    and

    Monthly Specials For "???"
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    I've changed all collation to utf8_generic_ci from default latin1_swedish_ci
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    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!

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    Default Re: zen v1.5.4 gibberish at homepage in Chinese

    I've imported v1.5.1 data and changed all web file Simplified Chinese text to traditional Chinese.
    What do you mean by that?

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    Default Re: zen v1.5.4 gibberish at homepage in Chinese

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

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    Default Re: zen v1.5.4 gibberish at homepage in Chinese

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

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    Default Re: zen v1.5.4 gibberish at homepage in Chinese

    Quote Originally Posted by Thannaree View Post
    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!

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    Default Re: zen v1.5.4 gibberish at homepage in Chinese

    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',

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    Default Re: zen v1.5.4 gibberish at homepage in Chinese

    Quote Originally Posted by Thannaree View Post
    In files includes/languages/schinese.php and admin/includes/languages/schinese.php



    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',
    Thank you Thannaree! I'm in Hong Kong so I guess I should use zh_HK.

    Here is the original code:
    Code:
    $locales = array('zh_CN', 'zh_CN.utf8', 'zh');
      @setlocale(LC_TIME, $locales);
    I changed to :
    Code:
    $locales = array('zh_HK', 'zh_HK.utf8', 'zh');
      @setlocale(LC_TIME, $locales);
    The gibberish still exists.

    I'm not familiar with programming. I tried to remove the definition of $locales, i.e.
    Code:
    $locales = array('zh_HK', 'zh_HK.utf8', 'zh');
      @setlocale(LC_TIME,  'zh_HK.utf8');

    The month gibberish problem seems solved!
    Homepage
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    Admin page
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    But I wonder it will drive other problems in somewhere, won't it?

    Could you please also telling me whether I have to change all table collations to utf8_generic_ci in database?

    Thank you!

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    Default Re: zen v1.5.4 gibberish at homepage in Chinese

    I changed to :
    Code:
    $locales = array('zh_HK', 'zh_HK.utf8', 'zh');
    @setlocale(LC_TIME, $locales);
    The gibberish still exists.
    Have you also tried with

    Code:
    $locales = array('zh_HANT', 'zh_HANT.utf8', 'zh');
    @setlocale(LC_TIME, $locales);

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    Default Re: zen v1.5.4 gibberish at homepage in Chinese

    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.
    How did you install it? I just did a fresh v1.54 install manually and UTF-8 is set by default in the drop down. And after installation collation is utf8_generic_ci.

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    Default Re: zen v1.5.4 gibberish at homepage in Chinese

    Quote Originally Posted by Thannaree View Post
    Have you also tried with

    Code:
    $locales = array('zh_HANT', 'zh_HANT.utf8', 'zh');
    @setlocale(LC_TIME, $locales);
    I've tried it and TW and HANS but the month "September" displayed in English instead of Chinese.

    Could you give me advise if changing like this should be okay?
    Code:
    @setlocale(LC_TIME,  'zh_HK.utf8');

 

 
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