Character encoding problem
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 9:51 am
I recently installed phpmyfaq 2.8.2 on our web server running Apache/2.2.16 (Debian). Installation was quite straightforward and the pages work ok.
I created the Mysql database as instructed to use utf-8 character encoding and chose to use the finnish language pack for the pages.
Now, when I look at the front page, the accented characters (eg. äöå) are not shown correctly but instead shown as two characters like ä.
The web page received by the browser correctly states the page to use utf-8 encoding (by <meta charset="utf-8"> in the header), but for some reason my browsers (Firefox 24, Chromium) think that the encoding is windows-1252 (shown in FF: Tools - Page info) and displays the utf character with 2 symbols.
Also, trying to input accented characters via the admin interface is not working, the ä's are not entered at all into the database.
Any idea why? What configuration mistake did I do?
I created the Mysql database as instructed to use utf-8 character encoding and chose to use the finnish language pack for the pages.
Now, when I look at the front page, the accented characters (eg. äöå) are not shown correctly but instead shown as two characters like ä.
The web page received by the browser correctly states the page to use utf-8 encoding (by <meta charset="utf-8"> in the header), but for some reason my browsers (Firefox 24, Chromium) think that the encoding is windows-1252 (shown in FF: Tools - Page info) and displays the utf character with 2 symbols.
Also, trying to input accented characters via the admin interface is not working, the ä's are not entered at all into the database.
Any idea why? What configuration mistake did I do?