BobRay, thanks for the post but the post says to enable php_mbstring in php ini. I don’t have access to my php ini files as they’ve been disabled for security reasons I’ve been told by my tech guy. When I go into WHM under php config advanced I see the following: mbstring.detect_order; mbstring.encoding_translation; mbstring.func_overload; mbstring.http_input; mbstring.http_output; mbstring.internal_encoding; mbstring.language; mbstring.substitute_character; all are set to default. What one do I set to enable or should I try something else? Also I have installed modx on another domain and it works fine without the sample data.
&mbstring parameter added with the release 1.8.3:
==== php_mbstring extension
&mbstring [0 | 1]
1 - mbstring extension available (default)
0 - don’t use php_mbstring extension
The php_mbstring is supposed to be loaded.
If html charset page is "UTF-8", php_mbstring extension should be loaded for language which
need a multi-byte representation.
If the extension is not available for the PHP server, some charset like ISO-8859-1 (latin1) could be used.
With UTF-8, a message "Php_mbstring extension is required" when &mbstring=`1` and the extension not loaded.
In this case load the extension or set the mbstring parameter to 0 if you couldn’t load the extension
