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Special characters replaced by ? in iCal import

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vuegoguan
  vuegoguan
  Wednesday, 27 September 2017
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When i import events from an iCal file, all the special characters (ë, é, è etc.) are replaced by a question mark (?)...

In the iCal file the characters are OK...

Is there a solution for this?

Thanks in advance for the reply
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geraint
geraint
Friday, 29 September 2017 13:04
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Your file is not encoded as UTF-8 - try this version
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tonyp
tonyp
Wednesday, 27 September 2017 09:30
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Hello,

Can you check what the database collation is for the JEvents tables? it should be utf8_general

Many thanks
Tony
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vuegoguan
vuegoguan
Wednesday, 27 September 2017 09:51
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It is the collation utf8_general_ci...
tonyp
tonyp
Wednesday, 27 September 2017 23:56
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If you write the text into the import event description and save is it still formatted as you input it?
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vuegoguan
vuegoguan
Thursday, 28 September 2017 08:41
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I'm sorry, but i don't understand what you mean by 'write the text into the import event description'. If i change the description of the imported event manually and save it, it is saved just fine, including the special characters. It only goes wrong with the iCal import...
geraint
geraint
Friday, 29 September 2017 13:04
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#193910
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Your file is not encoded as UTF-8 - try this version
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vuegoguan
vuegoguan
Friday, 29 September 2017 14:41
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With this file it works fine!!! I will have a look at the macro which creates the file from Excel...

Thanks for your help!!!

Best regards,

Brand-Jan
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