Wanderwort by Roman Ernst » Joomla http://wanderwort.de Interkulturelle Wortkolletionen in Ruby, PHP, XHTML, CSS nah am Strom der Gesellschaft Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:10:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Joomla 1.x.x and UTF-8 http://wanderwort.de/2007/10/25/joomla-1xx-and-utf-8/ http://wanderwort.de/2007/10/25/joomla-1xx-and-utf-8/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:57:45 +0000 admin http://wanderwort.de/2007/10/25/joomla-1xx-and-utf-8/ I just converted two Joomla 1.x.x installations to UTF-8 encoding and I will publish the steps required for a working installation. You should consider disabling access to your website while you’re working on it.

  1. Convert database. That’s only possible if you use mysql 4 or higher, as older versions don’t support unicode yet. Converting the database itself meant for me: Use phpMyAdmin to dump it. The dump was already encoded with UTF-8. If it’s not, convert it.
    Also remove the DEFAULT CHARSET for each table:

     CREATE TABLE `v1_banner` (
...
) ENGINE=MyISAM  <strong>DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1</strong> AUTO_INCREMENT=x ;

    Or replace it by:

     DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci

    Now re-import your dump into your database.

  2. Enable UTF-8 for your database connection. Open your includes/database.php and uncomment the
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