'encoding' => 'iso-8859-1'

with this

 'encoding' => 'UTF-8'

it works fine, now i can input Chinese characters and i see them displayed correctly on the output Sales Order ...

many thanks for the contribution  :-)

Vito

In English case the easiest way is just manually change the encoding declared in installed_langauges.inc to 'utf-8'. English alphabet have the same charcodes in utf and iso. I'm not sure it is enough to store chinese characters in database, but you can try.
Janusz

let me check if i have understood correctly

you suggest to open the file installed_languages.inc inside the folder lang

   'encoding' => 'iso-8859-1',

and change the 'iso-8859-1' into 'utf-8' (lower case or upper case)

is that right?

Unfortunatelly  FA does not support utf well in this version. This is fixed in forthcoming 2.4 version.
You can eventually change encoding for English to utf-8 in installed_languages.inc: surely iso-8859-1 does not support chinese language.
Janusz

dear Janusz,

you are right, the language i have as default is

C    English    iso-8859-1    No    Unknown    None 

in the "Install/Update Languages" table below i have 2 other Englis options, en_NZ  English (NZ) and en_US  English (US), but both are iso-8859-1    :-(

could you suggest me how to find and add a new language (english utf-8) ?

many thanks

Check includes/page/header.inc file if any hardcoded changes might be a temporary workaround.

sorry apmuthu,

i am not clear ... i should check the above file for language setting? i don't know coding so that file for me is meaningless ... i have used "find" function and i have noticed the

$_SESSION['language']

appears 3 times ...

if you suggest me to hardcode it and apply some change could you be more specific to guide me

many thanks in advance

i have the same problem ... i want to add in the item name and description after English some Chinese characters but i get all ???

• in Setup > Preferences i have selected Language : English

• in Setup > Install Languages i have installed and activated zh_CN Chinese Simplified UTF-8 Installed 2.3.0-1  installed Yes

as u have suggested i have checked MySql and i have got this:

could you suggest me how to type few chinese words in the name and description fields?

many thanks

/Joe

I can not create a supplier's name in chinese because the name will become question marks.

Would you help me to solve the problem ???

THK!!
Paul Wong