Garbage characters in menu breadcrumbs.

[seisatsu]

This. How do I fix it?

I'm using SMF 2.0 RC5 with UTF8 MySQL collation.

[Masterd]

Install the UTF-8 version of your language.

[seisatsu]

English UTF8 installed and set as default, and forum cache cleared. The garbage characters are still there.

[Illori]

check your index.template.php file for any rogue characters

[Masterd]

Do you have this line in Settings.php?

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$db_character_set = 'utf8';

[agent47]

I had the exact issue when I installed a SMF RC4 theme on my SMF RC3 base- site. I resolved this issue by getting support from template creator. I basically sent him over the index.template file, he made the necessary adjustments, sent it back to me and it was gone.

[MrPhil]

Code-page specific (non-ASCII) characters must never be entered into a code or theme file -- only into language files where the code page (encoding) expected is explicitly given. Only ASCII characters (x00 through x7F) may be used in code and theme files (non-language files); all other characters must be HTML entities (&#nnnn; or &name;) so that they will work properly no matter what the page encoding is. I've been harshly criticized for saying this, but I'm going to do it again: authors who put non-ASCII characters (hard coded binary characters) into non-language files are morons.

[seisatsu]

Yep, I found it. There was a funky character next to the right angle bracket echoed in the breadcrumbs.