How to fix � character in DLE

[KingOfDCP]

Hello,

As the title, I want to ask how to fix � character in DLE. Instead of display as

20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection - Brenda Lee (2003)

it displays as

20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection � Brenda Lee (2003)

My site use cp1251 encoding and database use cp1251 too.

 

[Drinkordie]

cp1251 is for Russians who use Cyrillic, lol, why you use cp1251 instead of utf-8 ? O.o

 

[-sky-]

use charset iso-8859-1
set dabase latin1_general_ci

 

[fahadzaman66]

i think utf8 is best charset

 

[KingOfDCP]

cp1251 is for Russians who use Cyrillic, lol, why you use cp1251 instead of utf-8 ? O.o

I use cp1251 because when I used utf-8, I lost some part of news when user post that news with special characters

use charset iso-8859-1
set dabase latin1_general_ci

i think utf8 is best charset

Are you sure this will solve this problem?

 

[jackiebi]

just edit httpd.conf to force web browsers load encoding windows 1251 by default

 

[KingOfDCP]

@jackiebi: Thank you it works. I changed AddDefaultCharset to windows-1251 and it worked. But the problem I have now is it has a "п»ї" in first place on every page. Do you know how to fix it?

 

[Keosoft90]

just open your template and save it to UTF-8 or cp1251 with your dle version

 

[KingOfDCP]

^ This doesn't solve the problem

 

[JoomlaZ]

^^^ Its the BOM. Well download your main.tpl to ur desktop. Download this tool - http://www.bryntyounce.com/filebomdetector.htm - use it to remove the bom - save ur file and upload back. It will be solved.

 

[MrGhost]

Backup your database first after reinstall DLE with what you pref. UTF-8 or CP1251 then edit your backup database character set according to your DLE

eg. you choose CP1251 then edit the database character set to CP1251 and restore your database after try to do a rebuild of post!