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due many questions in last weeks, try summarize issues encoding on multilanguage sites 1.0 series.
basically, bilanguage sites, 1 of languages english not have problems encoding, if experience such, highly advise to put non-english language default. allow run joomla! backend on language , in of cases, solves 99% of encoding problems , database missmatches in collations.

if still experience problems encoding of other language, caused in of cases apache (or other server) default encoding, preset. on servers, encoding sent header in cookie , causes issues. in such case, there easy , fast solution:

- open file globals.php , @ end of it, right after last

code: select all

}

and right before

code: select all

?>

put following code:

code: select all

header("content-type: text/html; charset=encoding");

where encoding should replaced encoding used language not english. example (windows cyrillic):

code: select all

header("content-type: text/html; charset=windows-1251");

while bilingual sites more or less easy , problemless, when happens need build web site in 3 languages or in 2 languages, these use different charsets , none of them english, highly recommend consider utf-8 web site.

how it?
please these actions, before installing joomla!
1. create database manually , go operations, there set collation of database utf8_general_ci (screenshots available @ http://www.joomfish.net).
2. open file includes/database.php go line 102 , change following code from:

code: select all

//        @mysql_query("set names 'utf8'", $this->_resource);

to:

code: select all

        @mysql_query("set names 'utf8'", $this->_resource);

now save file.
3. open file globals.php , @ end of it, right after last

code: select all

}

and right before

code: select all

?>

put following code:

code: select all

header("content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

4. open file language/english.php , go on line 421. change following code from:

code: select all

define('_iso','charset=iso-8859-1');

to:

code: select all

define('_iso','charset=utf-8');

5. upload joomla! , install joomla! in normal way.
6. when install new languages, please sure saved utf-8 without bom. cool editors allow crimson editor , notepad++

that's it. expected work charm. more information how joomla! 1.0.x handles utf-8 available in following post:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,55065.0.html
you can consider use hack allows generation of pdf documents in utf , works language:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,110713.0.html

author note:
older versions of mysql doesn't supports databases collation utf8_general_ci, not able create compatible utf-8 site.

source: http://www.joomfish.net/content/view/39 ... g,english/

other aspect not underestimate:

it suggested enter contents raw opposed html entities.

jce editor setting right parameters in mambot.

this solve, among others, search issues on site.