Since upgrade, I can't edit some (not all) product descriptions -

and the ones I want to edit are the ones that have suddenly appeared in a large font size and a different colour from the rest! Since the upgrade, most of my product descriptions have remained the same, and are editable. But the rogue ones are un-editable. If I adjust the font size and color, and click update, they still appear in the online catalogue as they did before I tried to change them. Any ideas please? Many thanks -

your best start is to post a link and give more details of your upgrade.

You should also check if your database and language files have the same character set. utf8, or some other, but they should match.

hi dbltoe & picandnix,
thanks for the replies guys here is the site location:
http://www.newzctest.brookwater.co.uk/
I had changed the utf8 to latin1 on both confige files, so did not expect to see the following entries, when i did a quick search for utf8 via the developer tool page, found this:

(on includes/functions/functions-general.php)

*/
 function charsetConvertWinToUtf8($string) {
   if (function_exists('iconv')) $string = iconv("Windows-1252", "ISO-8859-1//IGNORE", $string);
   $string = htmlentities($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
   return $string;
 }
/**
* Convert supplied string to/from entities between charsets, to sanitize data from payment gateway
* @param $string
* @return string
*/
 function charsetClean($string) {
   if (CHARSET == 'UTF-8') return $string;
   if (function_exists('iconv')) $string = iconv("Windows-1252", CHARSET . "//IGNORE", $string);
   $string = htmlentities($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
   $string = html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES, CHARSET);
   return $string;
 }

is this a red herring? should i change the utf8 to latin1 (is that right btw, latin1 not latin-1?)

thanks in advance, :smile:

ps: should mention it is not all of the files, just a few here & there, but having to check every single file will take forever, (600+ items.....:no: groan...)

Hi dbltow,
i have checked the mysql files & the coding is: utf8_general_ci
there is obviously something I need to do about this should i change the database setting to latin1? (same as confige files) ?

thanks again in advance...

ps: just a further thought, if i do this the other sites using this DB would be affected right? I also have the database for piwik installed as well, (piwik btw is great & a snap to install, much, much better than google analytic, much more accurate too.)

Ok,
problem solved, UTF8 in database (btw, can have individual databases' designated to different coding, did not know that) & UTF8 in configure files (admin & includes) the whole latin1 thing (for me at least) was a blind alley. thanks for help guys, nudgedme in the right direction.

regards to all,

VO