SOLVED:Punjabi Text is not displaying by joomla. just ?????

[satvir]

Greetings,

I have installed Joomla 1.5, then installed "mod_indicwriter" for punjabi. I am able to type in Punjabi but when i save my article from front end than nothing happens all i can see is ? ? ??????? ?? ? ? ??. i dont know what to do now.

I have already changed Database Collation to utf =8 and already put this file in my index.php

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
But no progress.

Please Help .

Thanks

[imanickam]

Suggest creating a new database with the collation sequence of utf-8 and see what happens.

For this, you have to export the database content, create a new database with the collation sequence of utf-8, import the exported database content.

[satvir]

Okay . I am going to give a try to this. Thanks a lot for answering.

[satvir]

Yes i tried that also ...but same problem again i can see is ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??????? ...

[imanickam]

What is stored in the database table jos_content? Are you seeing Punjabi characters or question marks?

You could use phpMyAdmin for this.

[satvir]

question marks only nothing else....english text is visible but the punjabi text is in question marks.

[imanickam]

Are you developing the site in localhost or remote host?

[satvir]

remote host...

website name is : smmbw.org

check this link please

http://smmbw.org/index.php?option=com_c ... 2&Itemid=8

[imanickam]

What I noticed was that some of the tables were having the collation sequence utf-8 and others were having the collation sequence latin1_swedish_ci.

So, I created a new database of with the collation sequence utf-8. Now your site is pointing to the new database.

Review your site and let us know your comments.

Note: I have changed the title of 2 articles to Punjabi and added the text in Punjabi to both of these articles. However, I had left the ???? text string in those articles for you to see the difference.

[satvir]

Thanks a lot for such help. i am very thankful to you... its because of you guys we new developers are learning new things day by day.

Thanks again

[imanickam]

You are welcome... Glad to be of help...

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