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Martin Moeller	Thursday 22 February 2007 5:58:58 am Hi, a multilingual website, made with Exponential, now hast to support the russian language with cyrillic characters. As this didn't work, I switched the Database from ISO-8859-1-format to UTF-8 and changed this in the ini-Files of Exponential too, but still I cannot handle cyrillic texts. When pasting the text into the textarea, first it is displayed properly, but after saving the page, all characters become questionmarks. I didn't find a solution, yet. So I would be very thankful for each suggestion. Kind regards Morton
Softriva .com	Wednesday 28 February 2007 12:14:57 am I am not sure if this will help. Make sure that your .tpl files starts with {?template charset=utf8}
Martin Moeller	Friday 09 March 2007 1:20:09 am Thanks, for your answer! The problem could be solved. The mistake was quite simple: The tables of the database itself were converted to UTF-8, but some fields were still set to latin. After finding this out and chaning this, Exponential worked fine again. Kind Regards Morton

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Martin Moeller

Thursday 22 February 2007 5:58:58 am

Hi,

a multilingual website, made with Exponential, now hast to support the russian language with cyrillic characters. As this didn't work, I switched the Database from ISO-8859-1-format to UTF-8 and changed this in the ini-Files of Exponential too, but still I cannot handle cyrillic texts.

When pasting the text into the textarea, first it is displayed properly, but after saving the page, all characters become questionmarks. I didn't find a solution, yet. So I would be very thankful for each suggestion.

Kind regards
Morton

Softriva .com

Wednesday 28 February 2007 12:14:57 am

I am not sure if this will help.

Make sure that your .tpl files starts with

{*?template charset=utf8*}

Martin Moeller

Friday 09 March 2007 1:20:09 am

Thanks, for your answer!

The problem could be solved. The mistake was quite simple: The tables of the database itself were converted to UTF-8, but some fields were still set to latin. After finding this out and chaning this, Exponential worked fine again.

Kind Regards
Morton