On 20 July 2011 11:22, Philip Buckley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ... Oh! I've just found this post by Matthias Bauer <http://
> groups.google.com/group/habari-dev/browse_thread/thread/
> 111b719fc097eeec/b4e3d31a8edf8c25?lnk=gst&q=UTF-8#b4e3d31a8edf8c25>
>
> and his suggestion works for me ... I have swapped lines 31 and 32 of
> schema > mysql > connection.php so that they now are:
>
>                $this->exec('SET CHARACTER SET ' . MYSQL_CHAR_SET);
>                $this->exec('SET NAMES ' . MYSQL_CHAR_SET);
>
> i.e. the "SET NAMES" line comes after the "SET CHARACTER SET" line.
>
> I don't know why that makes a difference, and I don't like modifying
> system files, but I'm relieved if that proves to be all it takes (I'd
> better double-check my testing).

An aside, as I'm no encoding expert, you shouldn't modify the system
files, just make a copy and put it in user/classes and modify the
copy. Habari will use that instead, and your changes won't get
clobbered in an upgrade. Just don't forget it's there :)

-- 
Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University
http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog
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