Now, on my development MAMP server everything is great. I add multilingual tags, search in any language I want etc. On the other hand, on the production WAMP server, some multilingual characters give trouble.
For Example, the Hebrew letters ל,מ א do not get encoded properly (while ב & נ are fine).
e.g., if someone enters the search string ליבני the results are such:
* In the address bar the search phrase is correct, properly url-encoded.
* In the HTML itself I see the string "�_יבני" which is "%D7_%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%99", meaning the ל has been encoded to "%D7_" instead of "%D7%9C" as it should have.
Also, the tag משחקים has been entered into the system. I can see it is properly saved in the database, but when I try to url_encode it, I get %D7_%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%99%D7_ (noticed the damn "%D7_" again).
-Both Environments use PHP 5, mysql and Apache.
-MAMP uses PHP 5.2.5 while the WAMP server uses PHP 5.2.8
-Mysql table are all UTF-8
- Encoding and Meta tags both are UTF-8
- I've tried AddDefaultCharset utf-8
- I've tried adding the following to the php.ini:
mbstring.language = Neutral ; Set default language to Neutral(UTF-8) (default)
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8 ; Set default internal encoding to UTF-8
mbstring.encoding_translation = On ; HTTP input encoding translation is enabled
mbstring.http_input = auto ; Set HTTP input character set dectection to auto
mbstring.http_output = UTF-8 ; Set HTTP output encoding to UTF-8
mbstring.detect_order = auto ; Set default character encoding detection order to auto
mbstring.substitute_character = none ; Do not print invalid characters
default_charset = UTF-8 ; Default character set for auto content type header
so far nothing works, and I'm fresh out of ideas.
Anyone?