Open Journal Systems 3.1.2.4
Linux server
Since the upgrade been having special characters show up like this, check the dev site everything is the same but there is no special characters i played around with config.inc.php but does not seem to
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Localization Settings ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[i18n]
; Default locale
;locale = en_ZA
locale = en_US
; Client output/input character set
client_charset = utf-8
; Database connection character set
; Must be set to “Off” if not supported by the database server
; If enabled, must be the same character set as “client_charset”
; (although the actual name may differ slightly depending on the server)
connection_charset = utf8
;connection_charset = Off
; Database storage character set
; Must be set to “Off” if not supported by the database server
database_charset = utf8
;database_charset = Off
; Enable character normalization to utf-8
; If disabled, strings will be passed through in their native encoding
; Note that client_charset and database collation must be set
; to “utf-8” for this to work, as characters are stored in utf-8
; (Note that this is generally no longer needed, as UTF8 adoption is good.)
;charset_normalization = Off
charset_normalization = utf-8
mysql> SELECT @@character_set_database, @@collation_database;
±-------------------------±---------------------+
| @@character_set_database | @@collation_database |
±-------------------------±---------------------+
| latin1 | latin1_swedish_ci |
±-------------------------±---------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
I have tried everything and at a loss any help would be appreciated.
Thank you