Special characters and textarea

[rooofl]

I have trouble to render special characters with a textarea field: once special characters are entered in the textarea field (eg: å), it appears as � on the website. This textarea is a character map for a type showcase, so I need UTF8 support, my HTML header is set to charset=utf-8, what do you think?

[Martijn Geerts]

Could be a malformed template file. Try to delete the templates and create new valid ones. (Copy code from old to new)

[horst]

I would also check database setting:

1. database character encoding should be utf-8
2. template files need to be utf-8 encoded
3. HTML-Output need to be utf-8 encoded (header)

[rooofl]

Many thanks for your replies. This issue was due to a hand crafted function using substr(). I used mb_substr() instead and it solved the encoding issue!