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Cellar Dweller

Posted on 06-30-08 11:41 PM

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Recently, the character encoding for this board has become unset. I distinctly remember it being set to UTF-8, but recently there has been no encoding set in the HTTP headers or meta tags. This is a time sensitive problem, because form data is submitted in the same encoding as the page by default, and content in multiple encodings will begin to accumulate in the database. As the above picture taken from Kawa's thread list shows, this is beginning to happen.

According to http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets, the best resolution is probably to set the encoding in a Content-Type header. In the case of this board, the line

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

might go near the top of the "pageheader" function. After that, non UTF-8 content could be manually fixed.

Arbe

Posted on 07-01-08 03:15 AM

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I had the same problem here, actually, whilst reading some IRC quotes. It's not a hard fix, but, I didn't realize it had affected other users. :\

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