Why Characters Is Shown Like ????? When I Use Hindi Unicode In Joomla In My Website?
August 14, 2009 under FAQ
I have a free joomla Template for my website,I’ve installed hindi and it is been set as default language but when I type the content it becomes ?????? what to do?
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Perhaps setting that default language was for the settings, file manager, etc., not the website itself.
Check that your database is set up for your language. It should be Character Set utf8 and Collation utf8_unicode_ci. Your Joomla settings should be for UTF-8. You also need to make sure that your template does not override the Joomla language settings.
The ???? happens when either the database or Joomla tries to convert your Hindi characters to Latin-1 and does not know how to convert them so it replaces the characters with a question mark. If you use the correct settings for your database and for Joomla then these will not be converted and will show up correctly.
The fonts must be able to support the language to reproduce the characters in your browser, as well as, other people’s browsers. The correct character encoding must be called on the html file and/or the correct encoding must be set within the browser itself.
Ron