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I use Mint for a blog where many of the post titles include French words with accented characters. In Mint, these accented characters appear malformed because Mint uses iso-8859-1 character encoding in it’s HTML header. I was able to fix the problem and get the characters to display correctly by switching to utf-8. So, in /mint/app/includes/head.php you would change

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

to

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

It’s a simple fix, but I thought the tip might be useful to other folks.

thxs for sharing :-)

Aha! this is what was happening to me since I upgraded to 2.0. Ok, for those who play with .htaccess, you can simply have this and be done with the whole of your site’s encoding.

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

P.S.: You may have already tried this before Shaun and I don’t know if it will break anything on Mint, but you could replace your

“TYPE=MyISAM;”

with

“TYPE = MyISAM CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;”

when creating the tables upon install. As well, if it doesn’t break anything, you could run this

“ALTER TABLE `<Insert Table Name>` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci”

to switch all the tables over to UTF-8 if they have already installed.