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I noticed that the Emails sent from eCommerce (Order and Receipt) do not display special characters such as ü ö ä. I have been trying to add the utf_decode() function but without success. Here's a sample of what it looks like:

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Nachname: L�thi
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Does anyone have an idea how this could be corrected?
I also thought it could have to do with the email headers but couldn't really find anything wrong there (to my knwoledge)
 
jordanlev replied on at Permalink Reply
jordanlev
I have had a lot of troubles with non-english characters in the eCommerce module. I'm still working through some of them, but for most issues like this is was because the MySQL database didn't have utf8 encoding (called "CHARSET"), or utf8 collation. If you're using phpMyAdmin, you should be able to check this for each table in the database (and there's a default for the database as a whole as well).

Not sure if that solves your specific problem, but worth looking into.
jordanlev replied on at Permalink Reply
jordanlev
You also might want to take a look at this:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/andquotval...