Making it all UTF-8

[kgroneman]

I have multiple languages with various encoding at http://forums.opensuse.org

English (default) is ISO-8859-1
Japanese is UTF-8
Russian is UTF-8
Hungarian is ISO-8859-2
French is ISO-8859-1

It's generally working OK but the problem with this is that with one language selected, messages in another language don't display correctly. I don't know much about encoding but I tried to set everything to UTF-8 from within the language manager (under LANGUAGE SETTINGS, HTML Character Set). It doesn't seem to work as characters in the French and Hungarian forums don't display correctly.

Is there a "best practices" method to set all languages to UTF-8 on an existing board? Go easy on me...I'm a character encoding novice. Thanks in advance.

[ayalsule]

simply with notepad
get the first file (no changes)
open with notepad
look for <charset> and make it UTF-8 like that

<charset><![CDATA[UTF-8]]></charset>

file -> save as
(under file name)select encoding UTF8
upload the file

ps: there is encoding in the top of the file like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
you don`t have to change it just do follow steps up there

[kgroneman]

Thank you. That works, and I can post now with UTF-8, but all existing messages are still encoded incorrectly so the non-English characters in existing posts display incorrectly. Does anyone have an idea of how to handle that issue?

[Zachery]

You shouldn't have been using mixed encoding to begin with, you'll have to figure out how to get everything to the same encoding.