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5 Feb 2009, 6:06 AM
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German characters do not appear correctly

Hello, when i give to a subdirectory a name containing a german character like öäüß these letters do not appear. But this happens only when the language of the site is german (i have installed 5 languages). With the other 4 languages i can see correctly these letters (öäüß).
Why?
Thanks in advance for your help.

5 Feb 2009, 8:52 PM
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Re: German characters do not appear correctly

Any idea? :unsure:

5 Feb 2009, 9:20 PM
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Re: German characters do not appear correctly

you might have an incorrect Character set for your german language pack . You may ask German language pack support for help in this matter

5 Feb 2009, 9:27 PM
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Re: German characters do not appear correctly

I am also having problems with the german umlaut letters äöüß and I can´t figure it out. If I write these letter in the english part of my store they are displayed correctly but if I write them in the german side I get funny symbols in the browser.

I have checked over the language setting and they seem to be correct. I don´t know what to do anymore.

If you figure it out, could you let me know?

Thanks.

5 Feb 2009, 10:51 PM
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Re: German characters do not appear correctly

My same problem. :(

6 Feb 2009, 8:33 AM
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Re: German characters do not appear correctly

tony_sar:

this might solve the problem, well, I hope :blush:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64659

Unfortunately, I have already read that thread and it didn´t help. :no:

Thanks anyway.

6 Feb 2009, 1:12 PM
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Re: German characters do not appear correctly

I read that topic and tried this:

in the file includes/languages/german.php

change this:
// charset for web pages and emails
define('CHARSET', 'utf-8');

to this:
**// charset for web pages and emails
define('CHARSET', 'iso-8859-1'); **

It happens that now the umlaut letters are showed correctly in the directories and subdirectories names. But in all other places are showed wrong (and before in those places they were ok).

So this is not a good solution. :no:

6 Feb 2009, 3:55 PM
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Re: German characters do not appear correctly

ya, I am having the same problem. I´ll let you know if I figure something out. :(

20 May 2009, 10:04 AM
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Re: German characters do not appear correctly

Hello

Just wondering if there was a solution to this?

I have installed teh german pack and the gentleman using zen in english & german is a german native speaker.

Everything else is good apart from the Umlaut issues.

Thanks