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Finally I found the solution as the problem was not related to the database but the page encoding and it sufficed to change the files lang/strings_english.txt and the others by replacing

$s_charset = "windows-1252";
with:
$s_charset = "UTF-8";

I described all my steps here http://www.len.ro/work ...

For anyone which finds this topic searching for utf-8 encoding maybe the problem is not in the database but in the page encoding and it suffices to change the files lang/strings_english.txt and the others by replacing

$s_charset = "windows-1252";
with:
$s_charset = "UTF-8";

as I did on the process ...

Hello,

I am migrating my mantis installation from mysql 4.0 to mysql 5.0. My database contains french characters. I started by experimenting problems with the database. All the database seemed to be trunked to the first non-ascii character found. I managed to solve this problem by using iconv to ...