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How do I change the character set from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8?

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12 Jul 2007, 5:56 PM
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How do I change the character set from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8?

Hello,

I have integrated Wordpress blogging into my ZenCart site. It is working great except the blog posts have some strange characters in them. It is an encoding issue because if I change my browser to UTF-8 the characters go away. According to the Wordpress forums they use UTF-8.

My question is this.

Where does Zencart get the meta tag for the charset and can I change it to UTF-8 without messing anything up?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Here is my website showing the characters.

http://www.hollydoodledesigns.com/shop

Thanks,
Brian

12 Jul 2007, 7:44 PM
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Re: How do I change the character set from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8?

You'll need to use phpMyadmin or something similar to get into the configuration table in the database.

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12 Jul 2007, 7:47 PM
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Re: How do I change the character set from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8?

So it is stored in the DB? I have access to the DB. Do you know which table by any chance?

12 Jul 2007, 8:25 PM
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Re: How do I change the character set from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8?

collation is inside the phpMyAdmin.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36382&highlight=charset+change might help.

Note that part of this may be due to the version being run.

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