Assign MySQL Character Set for PHP output
For the old proceedings/programme pages of old events, we were seeing character errors like this:
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So to fix this I introduced into the configuration.php file the following:
$db=mysql_connect('localhost','username','password') or mysql_die();
mysql_select_db('DBname',$db);
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$db);
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PHP.net reference here.