How to configure UTF-8 in phpList

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[TomasM]

I would like to add an important detail. It is not enough to change the collation of the tables to UTF-8. Most likely you will also have to change individual fields' collation like:

Table: phplist_message
Fields: subject, message, textmessage

Table: phplist_list
Fields: name, description

You may need to change additional fields in case you need UTF-8 encoding there. I spent many hours, until I realized this, I hope that will help you guys

[IronDog]

Hello,

I am trying to set up a PHPList in Russian (Cyrillic), UTF-8. I've noticed that russian.inc that ships with PHPList has $strCharSet='windows-1251' and I have read that UTF-8 is hard-coded in the PHP code.
I've transformed russian.inc from windows-1251 into UTF-8, and specified russian.inc in the config.php. The front page is still gibberish and only becomes Russian if one specifies the desired encoding explicitly to the browser. In other words, the HTML itself does not appear to be self-documented. In the HTML for the front page, I see

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

I believe iso-8859-1 is inconsistent with the goal of getting Russian via UTF-8.
How do I correct that META?

Thanks!

[Ryneh]

Hi IronDog:

I encountered the same situation like yours. Hope my experience helps.
viewtopic.php?p=90956

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[sampei]

that's the reason why it says "default". However if you didn't do it you can still update each tables manually - perhaps takes 5 minutes longer but the result is the same...


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[KhanhHQ123]

The way of Andy works perfectly.

After searching for minutes, i found an official FAQ of PhPList for all you guys to know more about this problem: http://docs.phplist.com/PhplistFAQ.html