VM search module and encoding problem.

[syntalk]

Hi,
I wasn't sure should I post it here or in the modules section.
I have a VM search module and site in polish and english (english is disabled at the moment). When I put the polish characters i get strange stuff like in example if I put "ó" I get "C3B3" in return so if I search for "ogórek" it seeks for "ogC3B3rek" and obviously finds nothing .
All rest is working fine and tried Joomla search module and worked fine. Also tried on Beez template with same problem in result.
Using native Joomla and VM translation.

J 2.5.11 + PL
charset=utf-8
VM 2.0.18c + PL


Any ideas are welcome.
Thanks

[jjk]

Please check if your database including all tables are set to collation utf8_general_ci.

[syntalk]

Thanks and yes they are..

[jjk]

I don't know if this works, but perhaps it helps if you would set your polish language product table or at least it's name, short description and description columns to utf8_polish_ci collation in the database.

[syntalk]

Cheers again but still the same.
I wonder because I found in my phpMyAdmin this:
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
MySQL connection collation: UTF-8_general_ci(utf8)
Should I ask my hosting provider to change MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) to UTF-8_general_ci(utf8)?
But then how it comes that joomla search form is working fine?

[jjk]

Another idea (not tested!) - If I look at the Joomla language files, they come with a 'local' attribute in the xml file. If I understand that correctly, these are supplied to make the language files work on different operating systems. An example:

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<metadata>
<name>Polish (PL)</name>
<tag>pl-PL</tag>
<rtl>0</rtl>
<locale>pl-PL.utf8, pl_PL.UTF8, pl_PL.utf8, pl_PL.UTF-8, pl_PL.utf-8, polish_POLISH.UTF8, polish_POLISH.utf8, pl.UTF8, polish.UTF8, polish-pl.UTF8, PL.UTF8, polish.utf8, polish-pl.utf8, PL.utf8, pl_PL, polish_POLISH, pl, polish, polish-pl, PL, poland, Poland, pl_PL.ISO8859-2, polish_POLISH.ISO8859-2, pl.ISO8859-2, polish.ISO8859-2 polish-pl.ISO8859-2, PL.ISO8859-2, pl_PL.iso88592, polish_POLISH.iso88592, pl.iso88592, polish.iso88592, polish-pl.iso88592, PL.iso88592</locale>
<firstDay>1</firstDay>
</metadata>


Maybe it makes a difference if you copy this into the VirtueMart xml file for the polish language and install the language pack again afterwards.

[syntalk]

Thanks jjk,

Didn't work unfortunately.
Problem seems to be related to the server. I replicated the store locally on xammp and it works fine. Only wonder why native joomla search and everything else is ok?
Will do few more tests.
Cheers