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Where I should see dates I see “Wrong charset, cannot convert” or “Illegal character encoding” or “Illegal recode request”.. what is wrong?

April 26, 2017dates wrong

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Where I should see dates I see “Wrong charset, cannot convert” or “Illegal character encoding” or “Illegal recode request”.. what is wrong?

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Some operating systems report invalid character sets to PHP leading to errors when trying to convert system-generated content (like day/month names in dates) to UTF-8. Work around this problem by placing the following in config.