[TYPO3-english] Characters not rendering correctly since 4.5 - 4.6.9 upgrade

Mark Kuiphuis typo3 at markyourweb.com
Thu Jul 26 02:01:24 CEST 2012


On 26/07/12 2:19 AM, Sara Weale wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Since upgrading to 4.6.9 the rich text editor doesn't seem to like
> characters such as a £ ô or any html codes such as ô
>
> These now display as follows:
>
> pound sign from keyboard                  £
> a circumflex from keyboard (alt131)     â
> o circumflex from html utf8 code ô
>
> I have lib.stdheader.10.setCurrent.htmlSpecialChars = 0 set and the alt
> characters from the keyboard display correctly in the headers but not
> the £.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what has changed in the standard config to
> prompt this, if it's a bug or do I need to add something to the tsconf
> to change this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sara
>

This looks like a charset conversion error. Was the charset in the old 
website set to UTF-8? When you look up the same content directly in the 
database (phpMyAdmin for example), do they still look like £ and ô or 
also like the screwed up characters?

Cheers, Mark


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