CMSMS pages full of weird symbols

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DennisR

CMSMS pages full of weird symbols

Post by DennisR »

I've been working with CMSMS for half a year and it's my favorite cms to work with because it's simple, and gives me a sense of control. However, I'm having a problem that causes me to pull out my last hairs of my head. My site keeps giving - at random - pages that contain weird symbols; special characters that have been converted the wrong way. I don't know on how many places I've implemented the charset utf-8; on the templates, in the php.ini, in the .htaccess, in php files but it keeps giving me these pages at random. One moment they are okay, the other moment they are not. I've cleared browser's and cmsms's cache, changed browsers, looked in the databases and set them to UTF-8 Unicode. Nothing seems to work. Only the CMSMS pages are affected, so I assume it must be something there. It appears on regular cmsms content pages as well as the admin pages.

CMSMS version: 1.1.3.1
PHP version: 4.4.7
Mysql Version: 4.1.22

The non-profit website can be seen here: www.artinallofus.org and different languages are being used in the site.

An example of the code that is being shown incorrectly:

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L’humoriste Pie Tshibanda s’est associé à AiA et présentera son one-man show « Je ne suis pas sorcier ! » afin de recolter des fonds pour AiA le mercredi 12 décembre à 20h à Wolubilis. Des photos de Stéphanie et Anthony y seront également exposées et proposées à la vente du 12 au 23 décembre 2007. 
Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Dennis
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