[TYPO3-english] Special Characters are not working

[David Bruchmann]

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> After migration, special characters are not showing good, like ' K?b' is
> showed like ' K??b '.
> I checked the meta tags, i found this <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
> content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> seems to be ok, what can i check or
> add to resolve that issue ?
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Hi,

first check if the migration of the database went well.
Look with phpmyadmin or another management tool at the records with umlauts
if they are stored right.
In general the whole database should be set up as utf-8 then you never need
any conversion. Conversion should be possible i.e. from any ISO-Charset by
setting the required options in the installtool but I never tested it with
current versions of TYPO3. Nevertheless, the work is done by the database,
so it shouldn't be a problem. You just have to "inform" TYPO3 which
parameters to add to the queries.

But before thinking about that check how it's stored (UTF-8 / ISO-xxx, ...
) and if the Umlaut-characters are saved correct in the database.

Best Regards,
David