so 1.54 does not support special characters?

23 Jun 2015, 2:59 AM

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travbacon

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so 1.54 does not support special characters?

That is what I am being told

23 Jun 2015, 4:20 AM

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Re: so 1.54 does not support special characters?

travbacon:

That is what I am being told

See the reply button? Click it and then read the content that appears above the message box.... Then once read, type the answers to those questions in the message box.

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23 Jun 2015, 11:49 PM

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Re: so 1.54 does not support special characters?

travbacon:

so 1.54 does not support special characters?
That is what I am being told
Told by whom? In what context?
IMO they're wrong. But, you've really not asked a proper question, because there's too much information missing.

ZC v1.5.4 does indeed support "special characters" just fine.

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24 Jun 2015, 12:15 AM

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Re: so 1.54 does not support special characters?

DrByte:

Told by whom? In what context?
IMO they're wrong. But, you've really not asked a proper question, because there's too much information missing.

ZC v1.5.4 does indeed support "special characters" just fine.

I believe this relates to this:
https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?217577-missing-product-description-on-product-pages&p=1285381#post1285381

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24 Jun 2015, 3:55 AM

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Re: so 1.54 does not support special characters?

The 1.5.4 includes/configuration.php and includes/languages/english.php (and their admin side counterparts) have fields "DB_CHARSET" and "CHARSET", respectively. Be sure these are set to your actual charset. When using an old latin1 database (that you have upgraded using zc_install), for example, you will want these values to be "iso-8859-1", unless you convert your database content to utf8.

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24 Jun 2015, 12:50 PM

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Re: so 1.54 does not support special characters?

swguy:

The 1.5.4 includes/configuration.php and includes/languages/english.php (and their admin side counterparts) have fields "DB_CHARSET" and "CHARSET", respectively. Be sure these are set to your actual charset. When using an old latin1 database (that you have upgraded using zc_install), for example, you will want these values to be "iso-8859-1", unless you convert your database content to utf8.
Just a couple of things here:

The file's name is configure.php, not configuration.php
If you have a latin1 database (e.g. using a collation of latin1_general_ci), then the DB_CHARSET value (in the configure.php files) should be set to 'latin1' instead of 'utf8'.
If you have a template-override version of your primary language file, e.g. includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php, the CHARSET value from that file is used.

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