character inserted for second spaces

[randyru]

Greetings,

Here are my settings:
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Joomla : 2.5.9
component_com_jevents : 2.2.8
module_mod_jevents_cal : 2.2.0
module_mod_jevents_filter : 2.2.0
module_mod_jevents_latest : 2.2.5
module_mod_jevents_legend : 2.2.3
plugin_editors_jce : 2.3.1
plugin_search_eventsearch : 2.2.0 (not enabled)
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Recently, in my JEvents event creation, an  character inserted in place of a second space or when two paragraphs are entered (second space  )

My database is encoded UTF-8 (used Admin Tools to ensure this); I entered into my .htaccess file the line of code:
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Still no help.

Here is the resulting HTML:

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<p>This is a new event [enter p now]</p>
<p>This is a 2-line string with 2 sentences within a paragraph.Â&nbsp; 2 spaces before this sentence.</p>
<p>Â&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now a new line with 2 p's above.</p>

I do not have any problems with articles or other components.

This has also started to happen to another site running J!1.5.x and an older version of JEvents.

Any ideas?
Randy

[Tonyp]

Hello,

This is the way the page is translated it is still not classed as UTF-8.

It is picking up ISO-8859-1 as assumed for example.

You might find:

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=174443

useful.

Regards
Tony

[randyru]

Hey Tony,

Thanks for the quick reply. I think I have found the culprit...sort of. However, I believe there might be some disconnect with JEvents in the J! translation area and php 5.4.

I found this J! bug report:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=29944

Now the rest of my site is working fine with no filtering of the   to A...it only happens in JEvents.

I have rolled back my version of php to 5.3 from 5.4 and that has eliminated the problem. Only a temp solution though.

Comments?
Randy

[Tonyp]

Help Randy,

Ahh php5.4 that is/was still experimental last time I looked. And you should stay on 5.3.

5.4 has deprecated a lot of features and we are yet to test under 5.4

[randyru]

Tony,

php 5.4 has been out for about a year...I would have thought that version would be stable by now -- and integrated into J! components by now.

Ha, live and learn!

Thanks for your help & keep up the good work.

Randy

[Tonyp]

Hi Randy,

You are very correct it has. But in the last few months been classed as stable.

This is a very new version really. And in the up coming months we will likely be doing tests on 5.4.

Many thanks
Tony