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Help needed: Scandinavian letters disappear! *RESOLVED!*

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    Help needed: Scandinavian letters disappear! *RESOLVED!*

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Why is it, that when I try to use Å, Ä & Ö letters on my Joomla / Mambo sites, they always disappear?

      Is this a problem with the server or with joomla? How can I fix it?

      Best Regards,
      M
      Finland
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    Re: Help needed: Scandinavian letters disappear! *RESOLVED!*

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Moi Mikael.

      If you look at Site language.
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      Here i have both in the Swedish and English language file:
      /** templates/*.php */
      DEFINE('_ISO','charset=iso-8859-1');

      Edit: do you have an URL to one of the sites that dont work?

      BR
      Jukka
    • Last Edit: 18 years 3 months ago by JuLa.
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    Re: Help needed: Scandinavian letters disappear! *RESOLVED!*

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Terve Jukka! :)

      I have set the language manager/site languages to "swedish" in Joomla. The ISO definition already seems to be included in both english.php and swedish.php that I'm currently using.

      Is there something I'm not getting?

      BR
      M
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    Re: Help needed: Scandinavian letters disappear! *RESOLVED!*

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • I read somewhere else that a change in the admin template also could make some problems with the ISO settings.

      Could you post or pm me one link to some of you sites, so i maybe could see what it looks like.

      BR
      Jukka
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    Re: Help needed: Scandinavian letters disappear! *RESOLVED!*

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Update:

      In the body text the scandinavian letters work just fine, but when I try creating a menu with the name "Länkar" it is displayed as "L?nkar" on both the frontend and in the menu manager. What is causing this and how can I fix it?
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    Re: Help needed: Scandinavian letters disappear! *RESOLVED!*

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
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    Re: Help needed: Scandinavian letters disappear! *RESOLVED!*

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • The solution (BIG thanks to Jukka Lamminluoto from Sweden!):

      On line 103 in includes/database.php one important part was missing. Btw. others have experienced this same problem with v.1.12...
      The problem was resolved by adding the following on line 103:

      @mysql_query("SET NAMES 'latin1' COLLATE 'latin1_swedish_ci'", $this->_resource);

      where 'latin1' and 'latin1_swedish_ci' should be substituted for the actual charset used by your server. This information can be easily found through PhpMyAdmin => click on jos_menu and check the values.

      Enjoy the new year!
      M

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