PayPal Instant Payment Notification Warning and CHARSET

[lat9]

Thank you so much for your response.

Right now we are using the DB Collation 'utf8_general_ci' for all tables. So we need to change the charset of both configure.php and all the language files to 'utf-8' . Also we need to change the meta tag to 'utf-8'. I hope this will fix our issues.

Regards,
Pramitha

Just remember that when you specify your DB_CHARSET in the two configure.php files to use utf8 (no intervening dash) for the definition and to find a utf8-update for the french language files.

The files in your /includes/languages/french folders (both storefront and admin) are going to use ASCII/ISO-8559-1 encoding, so when you change the store to use a CHARSET of utf-8, there will be characters that display incorrectly (like I previously posted).

[pramitha]

Just remember that when you specify your DB_CHARSET in the two configure.php files to use utf8 (no intervening dash) for the definition and to find a utf8-update for the french language files.

The files in your /includes/languages/french folders (both storefront and admin) are going to use ASCII/ISO-8559-1 encoding, so when you change the store to use a CHARSET of utf-8, there will be characters that display incorrectly (like I previously posted).

Hello,

So what you suggest, Do I need to keep the french language Charset as ' iso-8859-1' itself ? I thought we need to change the french language charset to 'utf-8' since we are using utf8 in DB. In you previous post you have mentioned that, we need to change the french charste to 'utf-8' , but in the lats post you have mentioned like if we change to 'utf-8' then characters that display incorrectly.

I got confused about the charset settings in language files.

What my plan is,
1) Change the configure.php (both storefront and admin) DB_Charset to 'utf8' (no intervening dash)
2) Change all language files (both storefront and admin) Charset to 'utf-8'
3) Site meta tag to use 'utf-8'

Please clarify my doubt?

[lat9]

What I'm saying is that there's going to be more to correcting the characters displayed for your french translations than simply changing the CHARSET value in /includes/languages/french.php (or its template-override, /includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/french.php) from 'iso-8559-1' to 'utf-8'. That language-pack was most likely created using an ASCII encoding (based on that current value), so just changing the character set to indicate UTF-8 isn't sufficient, since the language pack's files haven't been encoded that way.

The current version of the French language pack does use UTF-8 for its character encoding, so you'll need to download that file-set for use on your store.

As I see your tasks to solve this issue:

1. Change both configure.php files' DB_CHARSET value to be utf8.
2. Install the updated French language pack so that those messages are stored in files that are encoded using a UTF-8 encoding.
3. Ensure that the CHARSET values in all the primary language files (e.g. english.php, spanish.php, french.php, etc.) are all set to UTF-8.

You've mentioned it a couple of times now, and I realized that I don't understand what "Site meta tag to utf-8" means. If that means that the value in a page's <meta content=xxx> tag is set to UTF-8, then simply changing all the CHARSET values in the language files accomplishes that goal.