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Hi,
I'm happy to have member access now as I just bought my WSNlinks 
I don't understand this utf-8 or latin-1 thing.
I want to use only english right now, but later in time it might also be german, spanish etc. - so, all languages i need should work with latin1
In phpmyadmin i set my new database with the default setting of latin, but now i have read somewhere here in the forumsm, that wsnlinks uses uft-8 by default?
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I have read an interesting article about that stuff here (Uups, it's in german, so not for the main part reading this, sorry):
blog.koehntopp.de/archives/...eichensatz-Grundlagen.html
This article tells me that
-i should defne the charset always to the special needed case, so to latin1 in my case, not to utf-8
-i should define all tables to e.g. latin5 only where neccessary
-define only tables as utf-8 which are really needed to be in many languages
All of this i think because utf-8 has it's characters with variable length, which might result in problems..
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Now, my main problems are 2 things:
-DO I have to fit/change my database character set to utf-8, or can/should i just leave it as is (well, there's nothing in yet, so i can recreate if neccessary)
-It happened to me now with my settings, that i created a category with german Umlauts in it, and it displayed correctly, as long as the user has set language selector to German. As sson as I set it to Englsih(or fullenglish), it will be displayed wrong (wrong charset), as sth like | .
That shouldn't be, as display of these signs should also be possible in english settings, why should it use another character set or so??
Can u help out? I also tried to create a new mysql-database charset with utf-8, but that was the same problem..
A side question:
I had installed the previewversion (multilang), and one time installed it showed English and German(incomplete) as languages, the other time (parallel nstall of everything), it showed fullenglish, English and German(incomplete) , also to users on frontend.
So what's the difference between English and fullenglish, and why did it one time show both and one time it didn't?
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btw: I have tried and tried to get member access via Opera (9.02)to the forum, also accepting all cookies, but I won't stay logged in. If i enter name & pass, it will say i am logged in now, but then, I'm still not logged in on the coming up pages.
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