Hi all,

I want my users can be able to type Vietnamese characters with accents mark which using unicode (UTF-.

Here is the link: http://kimexpress.com/modules.php?name=News

As you can see the News title displays garbage characters, but the body and the extended body display correct characters.

In root/includes/meta.php, I modify the "charset" from _CHARSET to UTF-8:

from:

/*$metastring = "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Content-Type\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset="._CHARSET."\">\n";*/

$metastring = "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Content-Type\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\">\n";

And in root/languages/language.php, I modify:

from
define("_CHARSET","ISO-8859-1");

to
define("_CHARSET","utf-8");

But it doesn't display proper characters. Then I go into my database/nuke_stories table, and change the Collation collumn.

from
latin_swedish1_ci

to
utf_unicode_ci

and it still doesn't work.

Would you please help me to troubleshoot this bug?
Do I change correct files? correct structure?
Which files and code do I need to change?

This issue also repeat in my forum, when the title of each forum doesn't show right characters, but the body is OK.

Thanks a lot for your supporting.

Hello there.
This is not a bug. PHP-Nuke was ment/designed to work with ASCII[ISO whatever] encodings NOT with UTF-8. I think phpBB2 too.

However in plus of what you've done already the language file for vietnamese should be also UTF-8 converted.
Also on every form[in your case the form where you submit a story...I think it's modules/Submit_News/index.php for the Submit News or for the admin side of the News module modules/News/admin/index.php] you should change.

with


respectively [modules/News/admin/index.php in adminStory(), previewAdminStory(), previewStory() functions]

with

In other places too[basically wherever you have a form you should do the above and have changed the respective field in the mysql database to utf_unicode_ci].