Re: [phpGroupWare-users] Character encoding problem

[Dave Hall]

On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 14:16 -0700, Stefan Wagner wrote:
> 
> I have a character encoding problem while importing contacts. 
> 
> I have german and french special characters which are imported by
> vcard wrongly. If I change them in the database they appear
> correctly. 
> 
> Also if I change the language to german all those characters show up
> wrong.
> 
> Can anyone help me with that?

phpGroupWare uses iso8859-1 for Western European languages in 0.9.16, in
0.9.18 we will be using UTF-8 for all languages.  You might have to dump
the tables, convert the character set, drop the tables and then restore
from the converted dump.

Cheers

Dave