[swissmike]

I'm trying to fix a problem for several days. I searched on all the sites and i didn't found a solution. I think that i'm not the only person with this problem: GERMAN CHARACTERS.

I have the latest VB 3.6.4 installed with no other modifications on a Linux machine with PHP 4.3.9 and MySQL 4.1.20.

The collation in phpMyAdmin for all tables are "latin1_german1_ci", also for the table "shout" and its fields "s_shouts" and "s_data".

Somewhere in this board i found i thread with following hint. I had to put following phrase with the charset into the "vbshout.php". I did this:

PHP Code:

<?php
/*======================================================================*\
|| #################################################################### ||
|| # vBShout v2    Created By Zero Tolerance [http://gzevolution.net]    ||
|| #################################################################### ||
\*======================================================================*/

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1');



// ---------------------------------------------------
// Start Set PHP Environment
// ---------------------------------------------------

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

Now i (and some other german guys) have the following problem: the shoutbox works perfect but if we want to write words with characters like: ?, ?, ?, the shoutbox hangs until we refresh the browser. Other characters like: &, *, $ work correctly.

When i write in the file "vbshout.html" a character manualy like "&uuml ;" for ?, this character will be shown correctly!!!

Does anybody knows what could be the problem? Do i have to search in the SQL? Makes AJAX troubles? Is this a PHP problem?

Thanks for any hints!