Error with Swedish Files.

[jkm9694]

Hi All, I was drafted in by a user of your forum software, as he/someone had done something and it resulted in the forums settings.php being returned to nothing! I have since fixed this up, but there is now an issue of forums not displaying correctly. The forums are for a Swedish community and as such they wish for them to be in Swedish I set the forums to Swedish, and all the content on the forums disappeared. the posts are still there, just they are blank!

looking in the log I see the following:
(Cant post it all, as i Cant post links)
2: preg_replace(): Compilation failed: invalid UTF-8 string at offset 7


Have I done something wrong, or i guess more importantly how do I fix it
also there appears to be an issue with forum sub categories displaying ? instead of the Swedish letters.

Thanks

Joe

[Kindred]

It looks like you are eiher using utf8 but have not fully converted or the opoosite... your database is utf8 but your site is not...

also, your language files  are probably missing.

[jkm9694]

Hi,

The language files are there. I grabbed both Uft-8 and not from the downloads section.

How would I go about converting?

Thanks

Joe

[margarett]

as he/someone had done something

It would be nice to know exactly what was being done...

If you check, in phpmyadmin, the tables "smf_boards" and "smf_messages", does the text show correctly?

[jkm9694]

Yes both show correctly!

[margarett]

So that means that you need to match your forum language to the collation on the database.
If Settings.php was reset... Can you check if this line exists in Settings.php?
$db_character_set = 'utf8';

Are you using Swedish or Swedish-UTF8?

[jkm9694]

That line was missing!!! set that up and its good to go once more! cheers

I have a feeling that must have been user fault, but they claim not to have caused it

cheers for the help!

[margarett]

Great