Article Manager v2.10 and later stores data internally in unicode. If you've entered non-english data into Article Manager previous to v2.10 or you've imported data from an earlier version you can run this program to convert it.

WARNING: DO NOT RUN THIS PROGRAM MORE THAN ONCE. RUNNING THIS PROGRAM MORE THAN ONCE WILL "DOUBLE ENCODE" ALL YOUR DATA AND MAKE NON-ENGLISH CHARACTERS UNREADABLE.

Instructions

Backup your website - As with any major change it's always recommended you make a backup of your website and website data before proceeding. This includes data files, uploads, templates and anything else of importance. MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR DATA FILES NO MATTER WHAT. If someone goes wrong you want to be able to restore them. This program makes major changes to all your data.

Login with unique version 2 admin account - To be sure only authorized users can perform an update you must login with a version 2 admin account below.

Admin username
Admin password

Enter Article Number of an article with non-english characters that is currently not displaying correctly. (Clicking "Modify" on a record will display the article number in the browser address bar.).

Preview Article Number
Convert From
Convert To	Unicode (UTF-8)

Converted Content Preview (takes a moment to load...)

Non-english characters look correct, convert all my content to unicode (UTF-8).

Action

Converting Data To Unicode

Reload every

$settings.maxSecondsPerProcess$ seconds

Elapsed Time

$_elapsedTime$

Current Status

$_backupTimerForMultiStep$

Congratulations, the update process is complete!

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Note: To make sure all your html pages display properly as UTF-8
make sure you have this tag in the html header of templates:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">