Yes my site does display <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> in the source code.

However,I updated anything that has to do with jos_sef to utf general (just like you said) and it doesn't work still.

I then purged the URLs, and recreated them, and the question marks still appear in search. :(

Hello, the characters appear as question marks there too.


They appear as questions mark in everything that's associated with JoomSEF.
Even if I set the custom page title in JoomSEF to something in a different language, it displays them as question marks.


So what should I do? How do I "check" or change the database encoding? to UTF or whatever it should be?

I have no clue in how to do that, so please help me and give me a walkthrough! After all, this isn't a Joomla installation problem but a JoomSEF related issue that occurs everytime and anywhere you install it!

Please help, will definitely purchase if I can get this solved! Thanks.

Hello.. My website URL is: rematv.org

To the top right there is a search... When JoomSEF is enabled, and I try to search a keyword that's in a different language, the search appears with weird characters like ?????? and not what I want.

For example I type into the search: видео and it will give me this: (Search results for "?????")

You see what I mean? It gives me those question marks if I search in another language..

And if I disable JoomSEF then everything is fine.. and it gives me the real letters (Search results for "видео") which is what I need, and NOT (Search results for "?????")

So JoomSEF is turned on right now. You can go on the site and feel free to search with a different language (Russian in my case)..

So if you can help.. I guess it's some problem with the encoding.. I have the latest version of JoomSEF and if I can get this problem fixed, I'll buy the paid version for sure to get rid of the credits..

PLEASE HELP!! I'm sure it's some bug because once I turn off JoomSEF everything works fine...
Anyone?