i install my localhost SjNews payed version . When I create a menu in the admin panel , Turkish character looks like a question mark.
MySQL charset : utf8_general_ci

Dear Ekin Okuducu,

Please go to phpmyadmin, export the database to sql file, rename all 'latin1_swedish_ci' to 'utf8_general_ci', save and import sql database again.

Thanks!

i've exported my database , opened it with notepad++ and searched 'latin1_swedish_ci' but nothing found .
i found only latin1 as in picture i've added.

Dear Ekin Okuducu,

Please go to phpmyadmin, export the database to sql file, rename all 'latin1' to 'utf8_general_ci', save and import sql database again.

Thanks!

thank you for your help... it solved.

I had exactly the same problem with Greek characters.

Your solution was not working for me. After changing the latin1 to utf8_unicode_ci, when I uploaded the sql file to the server, I got an error message #1115 - Unknown character set: 'utf8_general_ci'

The solution was to change each "latin1" with : utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci

This worked fine.

But I would like to know, as this is a known issue to you for more than 4 months (since Ekin Okuducu wrote on this forum), why don't you update the template quickstart file?

It took me half a day to deal with this problem - not a quickstart at all. And since this is the first template I am using, I feel rather dissapointed for your customer support.

(and by the way, thanks Ekin for mentioning that problem)