Random Characters when using apostrophes etc

[Stevis2002]

Hi all,

When i add items to my catalogue, it puts random characters such as †when i use hyphens and apostrophes etc. Any idea how to fix this please?

Many Thanks,
Steve

[terraGirl]

Looks like an encoding error.

Can you confirm what character encoding is specified in your configure.php file & what character coding is showing in your database (you can check via PHPMyAdmin)?

[DrByte]

And if your site was recently upgraded, consider this: http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?...8859-1-to-utf8

[Stevis2002]

Looks like an encoding error.

Can you confirm what character encoding is specified in your configure.php file & what character coding is showing in your database (you can check via PHPMyAdmin)?

Hi and thanks for the reply.
My phpmyadmin shows utf8_general_ci???
And the configure.php in includes says utf8

Thanks

[Stevis2002]

And if your site was recently upgraded, consider this: http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?...8859-1-to-utf8

Thanks Dr. Byte but it was a clean install

[Stevis2002]

If it is the wrong character encoding, then which one should i change?

[DrByte]

What about CHARSET in your english.php files? Including both admin and non-admin, and any overrides.

[Stevis2002]

What about CHARSET in your english.php files? Including both admin and non-admin, and any overrides.

includes/languages/mytemp/english.php
define('CHARSET', 'iso-8859-1');
includes/lanuages/english.php
define('CHARSET', 'utf-8');
admin/includes/languages/english.php
define('CHARSET', 'utf-8');

That any use?
Thanks

[Stevis2002]

Which ones should i change to fix it?

Thanks

[DrByte]

If you're actively using the template named "mytemp", then you'll want to set its CHARSET to match the charset you're using in your admin and in your database. So, I think you'll probably benefit from changing that to utf-8

You haven't explained whether the symptoms you're complaining about are isolated to your admin side or your storefront side.