Special language characters showing ? mark

Special language characters showing ? mark

Zane Edwards發表於
Number of replies: 4
Hello,

When copying and pasting eastern European characters into my glossary, it is fine, but once submitting them, the special character turns into a question mark (?). (For example: karličnog) What needs to be done to fix this? I though Moodle was utf-8?

Thanks in advanced.
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In reply to Zane Edwards

Re: Special language characters showing ? mark

Howard Miller發表於
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A few things...

* is your Moodle 1.6 or newer?
* If it was an upgrade to 1.6.x, did you perform the utf-8 upgrade after the install?
* Are you completely sure that the application you are pasting from is set to utf-8?

I strongly suspect one of the first two, as your example here looks fine.
In reply to Howard Miller

Re: Special language characters showing ? mark

Zane Edwards發表於
Yes, its an upgrade to 1.6, and the install guide does not really explain specifically how to do this database conversion to utf-8

This mentions "the migration process" but says nothing of how to do it: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Database_migration

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Re: Special language characters showing ? mark

Howard Miller發表於
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Just go to the admin page. There should be a message at the top inviting you to proceed with the upgrade. Make sure you have a database backup first !!!