How to change "utf-8" codification to show special characters -RESOLVED-

[eukiseioh]

I 'm translating joomleague to Spanish but don't shows the special characters as "ñ". I added to each file .xml in the folder / com_joomleague / frontend_config / spanlish this line: . When i reload the page, still do not appear "tildes" and "ñ" ...
Anyone help me, please?

Sorry for my bad english.

[felixsingh]

Change the encoding of the xml files from ansi to utf-8. Open the files in an Editor , like notepad2, select all, cut. Then change encoding to utf. Save. Paste the text in, save again. Upload.  :rolleyes: Do the same with your language files.
Which Joomla Version.? Did you do all steps to make Joomla UTF-8?

[eukiseioh]

My Joomla Version is 1.5 (Stable) in spanish and work fine with special characters. Only don't work in joomleague extension. I changed the enconding of xml files to UTF-8 (only xml files in /frontend_config/ folder) and don't work. have i to make any change else?

[eukiseioh]

I made the changes like the German language file because it uses the UTF-8 codification... but don't work for spanish translation.

[eukiseioh]

I have resolved the problem. I make this:

Add this code line into xml files from frontend_config/ folder:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

If the files have this line, change the encoding value to "utf-8".
Save the files with "save as" option, select "utf-8" codification and save the file.

The frontend and backend language files save as "utf-8" codification too.

All work with special characters.

[kaito]

I'm using a utf-8 encoded database. I had problems with downloadable ical files i.e. special characters weren't displayed correctly. After some code checking I found

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echo utf8_encode($output);

in /lib/ical.php. The convert function caused this mess, so I replaced it with

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echo $output;

and also added charset type for the header:

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header("Content-Type: text/Calendar; charset=utf-8");

Hope it helps for someone else, too.