Upgade resulted in strange characters

15 Jun 2012, 2:53 PM

#1

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Upgade resulted in strange characters

HI there, i recently upgraded my store to 1.5.... now I see these strange diamond shaped characters everywhere.
How can I solve this problem?
http://gasolinecowboys.com/store/index.php?main_page=document_general_info&cPath=1&products_id=24
Thanks,
Rich

15 Jun 2012, 4:10 PM

#2

drbyte

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Re: Upgade resulted in strange characters

http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?313-should-i-convert-my-store-from-iso-8859-1-to-utf8

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16 Jun 2012, 5:50 AM

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sadie

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Re: Upgade resulted in strange characters

I looked at the link, and it says:

"upgraded english.php file to use the old CHARSET and setlocale settings, as well as edit your configure.php file to set DB_CHARSET to 'latin1' instead of 'utf8'."

I'm not seeing any reference to DB_CHARSET in the includes/configure.php file. Is that the correct file, or am I looking in the wrong place?

16 Jun 2012, 6:16 AM

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drbyte

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Re: Upgade resulted in strange characters

Add it if it doesn't exist.

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