UTF works in Firefox not ie

[HIPPY72]

Hi,

I have a site with many languages in place to translate, but am curious as to why i.e. doesn't recognise the UTF-8 languages I have installed while Firefox has no problem.

I can select UTF-8 in the ie browser and the characters work, but when I go to a new page it's back to Western....

Any suggestions?

Thanks - Julz

[kochin]

It is possible that your Web server set HTTP charset header to utf-8, but Joomla! sends out HTML header setting charset to iso-8859-1. Or, the other way around.

Check you web server's default charset setting. Set it to utf-8 or off.

Check each of your language files, e.g. English.php to see whether there is a line

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DEFINE('_ISO', 'charset=iso-8859-1');

or similar. Change it to

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DEFINE('_ISO', 'charset=utf-8');

[HIPPY72]

Thanks for the reply --- kochin

Investigating the server option as the korean.php in the Korean lang pack is utf-8
I have been told by my Host to add some lines to the .htaccess file to set the encodiong for the site/or page to UTF-8

http://www.w3.org/International/questio ... ss-charset ( this site doesn't target .php )

Still need help to pinpoint which .htaccess -- Should I be editing the Site Root or Joomla Root- or make inside lang folder.???

I have tried this code in the site root .htaccess - and others....
<Files "joomla/languages/korean.php">
AddCharset UTF-8 .php
</Files>

Thanks

[kochin]

Since your language file is in utf-8 and your host allows .htaccess, you can try create or edit the .htaccess in your Joomla! installation directory. Then, put the following line

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 AddDefaultCharset utf-8

into the file.

[HIPPY72]

You little beauty -- worked 1st time .... thanks so much for this. I can get some solid communication sorted.

How:
joomla root .htaccess file, by renaming the file as htaccess.txt entering that code AddDefaultCharset utf-8
at the very bottom of page, and then renaming .htaccess (say yes/ok to renaming popup warning)

Thanks Kochin