Indexhibit^TM
Index + Exhibit

Sorry I found it!

for those mates who have to host their indexhibit on an old host like me (couldn't change the encoding in the phpmyadmin cause the old version didn't supported it and nothing else seemed to work) just place

at the top of the index.php in the root folder. worked for me.

sorry, here it is

1. header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

I changed everything to UTF / reposted the entry in indexhibit, but still not working :/
here is myphpadmin : http://www.lab289.com/img/utf8.png
page affected:
http://www.lab289.com/work/gunnar-birkerts-talk-poster/
letter ā is turned into ? / previously i used the ;blabla code to get letters like ņ into my about me page.

it just seems that it gets changed on the moment of being posted. any ideas?

(linkback to indexhibit is in the about me page)

Database...tables...and columns? All three were changed?

First of all thanks for providing this cms-tool. I am a newby in this (hardly have some idea of html and css, but beeing a total noob concerning php etc.) and working on my new site www.jurgenowski.de.

I'm struggling with the german "umlaute" too. The collation adjustment on my database is on "utf8-unicode-ci", i also can switch to "utf8-bin" or "utf8-general-ci" and to some "utf8-/language/-ci" (but not /german/). Which of them is the right one?

And, if I choosed the right one, in which files I have too look additionally and have to change the code? (Please tell me the file name incl. the folder name, I'm a bit confused here in the forum because sometimes I do not really understand, which file is meant).

Thanks.
andreas jott

First of all thanks for providing this cms-tool. I am a newby in this (hardly have some idea of html and css, but beeing a total noob concerning php etc.) and working on my new site www.jurgenowski.de.

I'm struggling with the german "umlaute" too. The collation adjustment on my database is on "utf8-unicode-ci", i also can switch to "utf8-bin" or "utf8-general-ci" and to some "utf8-/language/-ci" (but not /german/). Which of them is the right one?

And, if I choosed the right one, in which files I have too look additionally and have to change the code? (Please tell me the file name incl. the folder name, I'm a bit confused here in the forum because sometimes I do not really understand, which file is meant).

Thanks.
andreas jott

No file is meant...you make these changes to the database. Your host provides PHPMyAdmin which is what you use to make these changes...

utf8-general-ci

Vaska, thats the thing I did all of that and it still has issues. I will post the screen shots this evening.

screen shot, thats an idea.
here is the one of my database settings:
http://www.jurgenowski.de/index.php?/themen/screenshot/

i have no idea how to get on with this.

And the database? And the columns in each table?

hello vaska,

at last it was a problem with my account. my webhost made some changings today (did not say what), and now it works. maybe other users here having problems with the umlaute should contact their webhost too, if the collation settings on the database are obviously correct.

thanks for your help.

That's great.

My guess, is that they were forcing an encoding type onto your site (that was not utf8 or German). There are ways around this but it's not always possible for the user to make these changes (usually via htaccess or php.ini).

As a last resort, but we never got to that point, we could have tried to force the type directly in the root index.php file - but this is not a real solution...it's the very last thing to try...

Anyways, time to get on to more fun things...

;)

Hi.
I'm having the same problem, only the language is different.
It is Croatian.
I changed everything in the database. Columns and each table.
Still not working.
I tried latin2 croatian, utf-8 general/unicode and still nothing. Only ??? instead of čćžšđ.
This is the website I'm working on: www.mirelab.com

I'd appreciate any help I can get.
Thanks!

"Columns and each table" is not enough. If you've read this thread you need to change the database itself and then re-input your text.

If your host is forcing an odd encoding (because I can't figure out why anybody would using anything but utf8 these days) then you can edit your htaccess file or even the root index.php file with the correct encoding. There are threads around here with this info...

I read it and I did change everything in database.
I will try this with htaccess and even with the root.php, but first i have to figure out what that should be.

But, thanks anyway.

I changed the collation to utf-8 and now I get an "internal server error".
Any ideas?? Please help me!

I changed the collation to utf-8 and now I get an "internal server error" when I call my site.
Any ideas?? Please help me!

try adding

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");

to ndxz-studio/site/plugin/index.php

solved the problem for me.

(the server was forcing some iso charset)