Char set problem, tried, but failed to fix.

[WolvesSoulZ]

Hello there! I have difficulty with the Charset of my forum, actually, more related to
É é and other letters like those.

They are often replaced by <?> , � or é

The charset is currently Latin1 in my config.php. I tried utf8 but it was worst.

Thanks.

[Allusion]

Did you move your forum to another host or re-imported the database?

Also, what's your forum URL?

[WolvesSoulZ]

I updated from 1.1.11 to 2.0 RC3

and located at : hxxp:teamssf.net [nonactive]

[Allusion]

You have a site (made with SMF's SSI, I guess?) and a forum.

There are 3 things to consider here.

1. You need to choose what character set you want to use for both the site and the forum, either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, but not both.

2. Your front-end site is using the (ISO-8859-1) character encoding, but your forum is using UTF-8 by default.

UTF-8 is usually recommended, because it can support most languages in the world, plus many special characters and symbols (including the Euro sign). Also, many modern hosting servers use UTF-8 for databases by default. ISO-8859-1 supports French just fine, but you might want to upgrade to UTF-8 for the future and for compatibility with new hosts etc.

3. The language files on the forum seem to be made for ISO-8859-1 encoding. You can see that if you go to the View menu -> Character Encoding (or similar to that) in your browser and switch from Western ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, and vice-versa. Same with the site.

The charset is currently Latin1 in my config.php.

Is config.php for your site? SMF doesn't use config.php, it uses Settings.php.

[WolvesSoulZ]

Well I meant Settings.php. And I'll try to uplaod the UTF-8 language pack for smf.

Edit: Got it a lil better, but it isn't all fixed yet. What to do now?

[Allusion]

Go to Admin > Configuration > Languages > Settings and set the "Default Forum Language" to the new UTF-8 language.

If you have installed mods that add their own language strings, you need to copy them into the respective UTF-8 files. Be sure to save every file as UTF-8 without BOM (any good text editor should have this option).

[WolvesSoulZ]

It keep putting back the language to english, no matter what.

[Allusion]

What language pack did you upload? Is it for SMF 2.0 RC3?

[WolvesSoulZ]

French-utf8 for smf2.0 RC3

[Allusion]

Weird. I just tested the language switch on a test RC3 install and it worked fine for me.

You see both "English" and "French (UTF-8)" in the language selection list, right?

Have you tried clearing the cache? Go to Admin > Maintenance > Forum Maintenance > Routine and click the "Run task now" button under "Empty the file cache".

[WolvesSoulZ]

Yep, and still not working 

[Allusion]

Does the switch work when you use the default theme (Curve)?