[support] Encoding problems (Ivan Sergio Borgonovo)

[Joe Murray]

My default Drupal installs end up having latin1 as the character type in the
MySQL tables, unlike CiviCRM default installs that end up with utf8 charset
and utf8_unicode_ci as the collation. Might want to look at that as one
possible issue.

Joe
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:05:24 +0100
> "Edward  Peters" <edward.peters at uk.iofc.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have special characters that need to go in a node title and into
> > CCK fields, but by default they do not display correctly. Can
> > anyone point me towards a solution which allows Unicode characters
> > in titles and CCK fields? Many thanks for our help!
> 
> I've no problems with unicode chars and I didn't do any special setup.
> FAPI did all the magic.
> Can it be a client side problem?
> 
> BTW if you're dealing with MS stuff in any way consider that they
> call UTF-18 Unicode, while Drupals works great with UTF-8.
> 
> --
> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
> http://www.webthatworks.it