Dear OJS community, when upgrading from OJS version 3.2.1.2 to 3.3.0.5, there is a problem encoding German special characters/umlauts. [Screenshot 2021-07-06 091233] This is most likely related to the fact that I had to change the value of the connection_charset function in config.inc.php from pr…

Hi @ewhanson , please excuse my late reply. I finally managed to convert the latin1 characters in our database to UTF-8 characters. I did not use the method mentioned above, but instead used the following SQL command and executed it for each affected table in the database. SQL command for the tabl…

Problem encoding German special characters/umlauts when using client_charset = utf-8, database issue [OJS 3.3.0.5]

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ewhanson July 13, 2021, 12:02am 3

Hi @adm_sub,

This doesn’t sound like exactly the same issue you’re facing, but I wonder if the solution for fixing the character encoding problems from this post may be helpful.

Regards,

Erik
PKP Team