Hi everybody,

Because I had 500 errors with my previous mutualised hosting, I decided to put my whole website on a dedicated server. It solved the problem but another happened (which did not happen on the previous hosting, with the very same settings) :

Some accents in private messages don't show up correctly. (whereas all other accents, in forum menus and in forum messages, show up well)

Here is my page :

http://www.litteratureaudio.com/index.php/forum/

You can connect with :

login : testuser

password : testuser

And look at a test message with accents in the PM inbox of this “testuser”.

Your proposals are welcome.

Best regards,

Augustin

ps. The problem also happens when I'm logged as admin and I want to transfer a message from a forum to another : the accents in the “pop-up” that appears are not correctly encoded.

The pm inbox message should look like :

“Test message with accents :

Désolé d'être un lève-tôt mais ces caractères accentués marchent à peine sur la tête !” (which doesn't really make sens actually, it's just meant to use accents)

I underline that :

1) my blog_charset is set to UTF-8

2) it worked on my previous hosting so maybe the problem comes from my actual server settings ? (but in that cas what may be the problem/changes to make ?)

Thanks for the help.

Best regards,

Augustin

Salut,

Merci beaucoup pour ces précieux indices ! J'ai trouvé la solution.

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Hi everybody,

Thanks a lot for your help. I finally found what was wrong :

I had to set UTF-8 as default encoding in my Apache configuration file (location : /etc/apache/httpd.conf - given that I use Apache 1.3).

So I replaced in my configuration file the line :

AddDefaultCharset on

with :
 
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Then I restarted Apache :

/etc/init.d/apache restart

And everything works fine now. (Hope this thread can help other users who are using dedicated servers)

Best regards,

Augustin