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One more. After moving the site the PHP info has this info that was not before:
Directive Local Value Master Value
iconv.input_encoding ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1
iconv.internal_encoding ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1

Before moving this was not set and therefore EE is configuring this for incorrect charset.

The status is that we have eliminated server problems and are left with EE problems that we need to solve.

I found this info in the manual in the comment part:

P.P.S. According to the ExpressionEngine developers, a few other commands can be added as well, like SET CHARACTER SET utf-8 and SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=utf8_general_ci.

Could this be the root of the problem?

I hope someone will show up that knows how to handle languages.

Hi, siggy - EE does not and can not set PHP directives, but if they are set to something other than UTF 8 I can see how that would cause a character encoding conflict.  Can you speak with your host about getting those changed to UTF-8?

Hi

I have talked to them. This server is configured the same way as the other installation we set up in Icelandic for westfjords.is and that is working perfectly with the same control config as this one.

I am trying to tell you that this encoding happened after I moved the EE files. I have tried to set the header correctly via php, via meta and via htaccess, but the system does not confirm to the changes. I have phpinfo snapshots of before and after and I have test files that show you that Icelandic characters appear there with utf-8, but why not EE?

Hi

I have isolated the problem. The data in the database displays Icelandic chars correctly when accessed via another php script on the same server.

All files generated by EE do not display Icelandic chars correctly. This is a matter that has to be solved and I need your help. Somehow EE generates wrong headers despite being configured to do otherwise. Please help me solve this puzzle.

In the link that you sent me earlier, where it says “Icelandic characters not working” - they look like they are working to me. 

I did note, however, that you have this at the very top of your page:



Can you try re-uploading the EE files and making sure there is no corruption or white space in the PHP files?

This is the same output that Firefox generates. IE displays all Icelandic letters scrambled and IE is the one we need to get right. The strange letters in Firefox is something the EE system creates. I have no idea how come they appear. The template I use is clean from them.

Can you do me a favor and create a totally blank template, and put this and only this in it:

This is a test

and link to it, please?

Are you running any extensions at all?

And lastly, did you try the re-upload, as well as checking path.php and config.php for any stray characters or corruption?

The PHP files look OK, not corrupted, at least as far my eyes can see.

Did you try the re-upload, as well as the template test?  And what about extensions, are you running any?

Also, I got your PM - how are you pulling that data out? I’m a bit confused as to what script that is, are you integrating this with a third party script of some sort?

Lisa, you are a genius.

After testing the path file in numerous editors I opened it up in DrJava as a text file and suddenly 3 strange characters appeared. I deleted them and everything is perfect.

Thank you so much for bearing with me. I hope this experience will help someone along the way.

Best wishes

Siggi

Aha!

I thought that might be an issue simply because those 3 characters appeared before the template loaded, in the upper left - and were clearly not part of your design.  That definitely indicated something awry in the files.  Just explaining in case you see something like this again in any context, not just EE.

Glad you got it all working!