Today I started all new again. Here what I did:

1) Followed the instructions listed here http://www.srw2d.com/sites/default/f...cartV1.3.8.pdf

except of not changing the query_factory.php file but doing this:

Create a new file for it:
/includes/extra_configures/my_db_charset.php
Code:

<?php define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf-8');
2)I have followed all the instructions in the link above and verified that my site was all being sent to the browsers in UTF8, I started to install Russian language pack . After installing the language website was all looking fine and in russian. Then I decided to test if russian characters were being inserted into the database correctly, I created a test category with a russian name (in admin section) but then on the site's catalog side I see this category name listed as a bunch of ?????.

So the question is what to do now? I looked in phpmyadmin, when i see the structure of my database, all the tables collation is set to "latin1_general_ci" and at the end of the list on the last row (where one can see the number of pages) I see in collation field "utf8_general_ci"

And I wanted to ask another(a bit stupid question:-)):

the name my_db_charset.php should be written as my_db_charset.php or instead of my_db the name of my db should be written?

Thanks for replies...