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I would like to know if a new solution has been found regarding the use of Arabic characters in MODX. I read a lot of posts on the subject in the forum but it doesn't look as if there would be s simple solution.
My site is in English and Arabic. All the Arabic characters appear as "????...". As character set, I chose utf-8 and as collation "utf8-unicode-ci", but I can see in phpmyadmin that all collations for my ModX database default in "latin1_swedish_ci".
Thank you in advance for your answer.
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erratum: ..... All the Arabic characters appear as question marks....
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Still no answer !? And my site has to be finished in 3 days!
That is a database issue. When you create the database, by default it will be whatever the server's MySQL configuration is set for (latin1_swedish_ci by default).
You probably need to create the database using the hosting control panel, then use its database client (usually phpMyAdmin) to set the database's default collation to utf-8. The scripts MODx uses may or may not be able to override the server's default settings; again this depends on the server configuration.
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Thanks Susan!
Does it mean I have to change the collation of each MODX table manually? What a work!
For a site in ENGLISH and ARABIC what is generally recommended: utf8_general_ci or utf8_unicode_ci ?
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Frankly, I do not understand. Why is MODX REVO not able the server's default settings or find another way to render Arabic characters (or similar)? I had no problem with an older version of MODX (instaled about 6 years ago.
Is nobody using MODX REVO with Arabic?
N:B:- Even I change the collation manually, it defaults to latin1_swedish_ci after recharging.
Check your /core/config/config.inc.php file, lines 9 and 12:
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$database_connection_charset = 'utf8';
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$database_dsn = 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=modx;charset=utf8';
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Both with utf8:
$database_type = 'mysql';
$database_server = 'mysql5-1';
$database_user = 'XXX';
$database_password = YYYY';
$database_connection_charset = 'utf8';
$dbase = 'XXXX';
$table_prefix = 'media_';
$database_dsn = 'mysql:host=mysql5-1;dbname=XXXX;charset=utf8';
You have to have a database with the proper default character set and collation of utf-8 and utf8_general_ci . If you don't know how to set this up, contact your hosting tech support.
Also make sure that in your Manager's System Settings that the modx_charset is set to UTF-8, and that you use the system setting tag in your template head:
charset=[[++modx_charset]]
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