JOOMLA French Language MySQL Database Update Character Errors!!

[equatorlounge]

French Language MySQL Database Update Character Errors!!

Hello

Im currently developing the website of elisabethgiraudon.com and i encountered a major mistake everywhere on the site. it's definitely related to the database because when i installed my joomla 1.5 website, there was no accent mistake of any sort.

the website has been installed in french originally because the client speaks french. when i installed the joomla in french, there was no mistake in accents. when i uploaded my sql database, now the mistakes takes place. e.g. my client's site elisabethgiraudon dot com

all the accents go brrrr... especially all the french accents

this mistake started taking place only after i updated my sql database from my laptop. on my laptop, nothing as such happens. everything seems to be working perfect on my localhost. however on my office's mac's localhost and on my hosting server, it's not the case.

can someone help me out here please or email me on

thank youuuu

savvy lounge

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[Orjan]

hm. from which version of MySQL to which version was the upgrade?
one thaught I get is UTF-8 contra Latin-1 which normally causes some problems if all settings isn't correct, even though I'm not sure that should be changed due to a upgrade...

[equatorlounge]

PHP Built on: Darwin san-s-mac-mini-472.local 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
Database Version: 5.0.41
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.6
Web Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.6 DAV/2
Web Server to PHP interface: apache2handler
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.8 Production/Stable [ Wohnaiki ] 10-November-2008 23:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.49 Safari/532.5

this is the info i got from the system info on my mac (it's ****ting on my mac also, sniff.... ), for someone who wants to know the mysql version and other related information

[equatorlounge]

hope someone can get to reply soon
it's becoming urgent now

[equatorlounge]

besides any idea how i can sort it out ??
you think it's because of the database collation
then it has nothing to do with the sql file but rather with the sql software???
oh my god!!!! this is evil, crap crap !!!!