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Submitted by Nick on Fri, 2006-08-18 16:40 in

Hiya!

For some reason if there is a copywrite symbol etc they are being replaced by question marks.

This is obviously causing issues:
http://www.ebuyer.co.za/search.php?q=a+data

click the first few products!

Any ideas as to what to do to fix this?

Thanks so much!

Submitted by support on Fri, 2006-08-18 16:46

Hi Nick,

I've looked at your site and from the headers it looks like you've got the character set configured to UTF-8.

However, the characters that are not displaying properly are encoded in iso-8859-1. You can test this; by viewing the page, and then using your browsers "View > Character Encoding" to select "iso-8859-1" - the (r) characters will then be displayed correctly.

Now, either you can simply change your character set in config.php as follows:

$config_charset = "iso-8859-1";

...or; if you have purposely configured your site to use UTF-8 because of some other feeds that really are UTF-8 encoded; then you will need to use a "UTF8 Decode" filter on the product name field of the feed that is causing the problem.

http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/321

Cheers!
David.