Question marks dle. How to solve the problem?

Question

PHP

kinonik.ru here is the site. Question marks suddenly appeared, although before that everything was fine ... Now I don’t know what to do, I have already tried everything that is offered on the Internet. Can you help?

Answer 1

1. We make a backup of the site. Delete all script directories except uploads. upload UTF-8 version of DLE. We restore the files in it to the engine / data directory.
2. All template files must be in UTF-8 without BOM. The head should also be utf-8.
3. All tables in the database, and the database itself must be encoded in utf8_general_ci. You can convert by asking:

SELECT CONCAT(  'ALTER TABLE `', t.`TABLE_SCHEMA` ,  '`.`', t.`TABLE_NAME` ,  '` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;' ) AS sqlcode
FROM  `information_schema`.`TABLES` t
WHERE 1 
AND t.`TABLE_SCHEMA` =  'MY_DB_NAME'
ORDER BY 1 
LIMIT 0 , 90

Plus (probably) there is something useful here: dle-news.ru/tips/1483-konvertirovanie-bazy-dannyh-...
4. В. htaccess add this to the top:
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Answer 2

Encoding problem. See database or file encoding.