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When I am entering special chars (Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic) into my survey, every character is shown as a question mark?

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When I am entering special chars (Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic) into my survey, every character is shown as a question mark?

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This happens if your database itself is not created to use an UTF-8 charset. This can happen when you have to create the database using a provider administration panel. You can fix this by executing the following SQL command on your database (using for example phpMyAdmin). ALTER DATABASE `` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci; Replace with the name of your database. You need to do this before installing LimeSurvey.

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