Re: Special characters lost after upgrade
I browsed the tiki_pages table and looked at pages I am having problems with. I can see that the characters are not displayed as viewed online. For instance, the character 'é' is shown as "é" and '»' is shown as ». I don't know if this is "double encoding", some other problem, or is actually expected.
Does the above indicate I did not correctly perform the steps to force utf-8, or the steps to avoid double encoding?
The good news is that I replaced the text directly in phpMyAdmin and I have seen improvement in the behavior (testing not yet complete). So I am cautiously optimistic I can fix this manually in the tiki tables. Fortunately I am not looking at a mountain of work. I'll report back when I'm done.
If I paste characters from the Windows character map into the tiki_pages table data field, do I run the risk of some incompatibility? Does the Windows character map include items that are not UTF-8 compliant? It is unlikely I would need any such characters (all I plan to use are visible in the tiki character map viewed in the editor), but the quesion is worth asking all the same.