Solved Kunena_Latest Module and Login Form display garbled characters after updating to 4.0.5

My site default language is Chinese_Simplified.

After recent updating Joomla to 3.4.4 and Kunena to 4.0.5 my Joomla site frontend login form start to display garbage characters like "�??" and �? while some characters still can display correctly.


The Kunena Latest Module notification also shows some gargled characters "�?".



However, inside the Kunena Forum itself, there is no such a problem and the posts all display properly.

When I switch the Joomla site's default language to English, the English words of the Login Form and Kunena can display properly. However if I switch the site's default language to Chinese_Simplified or Chinese_Traditional, both cases the garbled characters come back.





I have tried to update my Joomla Language Pack, as well as the Kunena Language Pack for both Chinese_Simplified and Chinese_Traditional to the latest versions, the problem persists.

Will appreciate if I can get some help on the above problem. Thank you very much.

I checked the forum, and think this post has some similarity to my problem: www.kunena.org/forum/kunena-4-0-support-...-latest-module-issue

Below is my Kunena Configuration Report:

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Joomla! SEF: Enabled | Joomla! SEF rewrite: Disabled | FTP layer: Disabled |

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htaccess: Exists | PHP environment: Max execution time: 30 seconds | Max execution memory: 90M | Max file upload: 64M

Kunena menu details:

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ID	Name	Menutype	Link	Path	In trash
119	南沙群岛论坛	mainmenu	Itemid=109	nansha-islands-forums	No
109	论坛	kunenamenu	view=home&defaultmenu=110	forum	No
110	首页	kunenamenu	view=category&layout=list	forum/index	No
111	最新话题	kunenamenu	view=topics&layout=default&mode=replies	forum/recent	No
112	发表新话题	kunenamenu	view=topic&layout=create	forum/newtopic	No
113	未回复	kunenamenu	view=topics&layout=default&mode=noreplies	forum/noreplies	No
114	我的话题	kunenamenu	view=topics&layout=user&mode=default	forum/mylatest	No
115	个人资料	kunenamenu	view=user	forum/profile	No
116	版规	kunenamenu	view=misc	forum/rules	No
117	帮助	kunenamenu	view=misc	forum/help	No
118	搜索	kunenamenu	view=search	forum/search	No

Joomla default template details : protostar | author: Kyle Ledbetter | version: 1.0 | creationdate: Unknown

Kunena default template details : Blue Eagle | author: Kunena Team | version: 4.0.5 | creationdate: 2015-08-17

Kunena version detailed: Kunena 4.0.5 | 2015-08-17 [ Turnau ]
| Kunena detailed configuration:

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Kunena config settings:
board_offline	0
enablerss	1
threads_per_page	50
messages_per_page	50
messages_per_page_search	15
showhistory	1
historylimit	10
shownew	1
disemoticons	0
template	blue_eagle
showannouncement	1
avataroncat	1
catimagepath	category_images
showchildcaticon	1
rtewidth	450
rteheight	300
enableforumjump	1
reportmsg	1
username	1
askemail	0
showemail	0
showuserstats	1
showkarma	1
useredit	1
useredittime	0
useredittimegrace	600
editmarkup	1
allowsubscriptions	1
subscriptionschecked	1
allowfavorites	1
maxsubject	63
maxsig	300
regonly	0
pubwrite	0
floodprotection	0
mailmod	0
mailadmin	0
captcha	1
mailfull	1
allowavatarupload	1
allowavatargallery	1
avatarquality	100
avatarsize	2048
imageheight	5000
imagewidth	5000
imagesize	7000
filetypes	txt,rtf,pdf,zip,tar.gz,tgz,tar.bz2
filesize	7000
showranking	1
rankimages	1
userlist_rows	50
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latestcategory
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trimlongurls	0
trimlongurlsfront	40
trimlongurlsback	20
autoembedyoutube	1
autoembedebay	1
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sessiontimeout	1800
highlightcode	1
rss_type	topic
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rss_included_categories
rss_excluded_categories
rss_specification	rss2.0
rss_allow_html	1
rss_author_format	name
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defaultpage	recent
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imagetypes	jpg,jpeg,gif,png
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imagemimetypes	image/jpeg,image/jpg,image/gif,image/png
imagequality	50
thumbheight	32
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hideuserprofileinfo	put_empty
boxghostmessage	0
userdeletetmessage	0
latestcategory_in	1
topicicons	1
debug	0
catsautosubscribed	0
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rss_feedburner_url
autolink	1
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teaser	0
ebay_language	0
twitter_consumer_key
twitter_consumer_secret
max_links	6
userlist_name	1
usernamechange	0
version_check	1
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| Kunena integration settings:

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Kunena - AlphaUserPoints Disabled
Kunena - Community Builder Disabled
Kunena - Gravatar Disabled
Kunena - JomSocial Disabled
Kunena - Joomla Enabled: access=1 login=1
Kunena - Kunena Enabled: avatar=1 profile=1
Kunena - UddeIM Enabled: private=1

| Joomla! detailed language files installed:

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Joomla! languages installed:
en-GB	English (en-GB)
zh-CN	简体中文
zh-TW	正體中文

Third-party components: UddeIM 3.2

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: Search - Kunena Search 3.1.0 | Content - Kunena Discuss 3.1.0

Modules: Kunena Latest 3.1.1 | Kunena Stats 3.1.0 | Kunena Login 3.1.0 | Kunena Search 3.1.0

Looks like the encoding is wrong on Joomla language pack.

If everything is ok in kunena, then its the joomla language issue.

Thank you. Does that mean I can only wait for Joomla to publish its new language pack and hope this will be resolved then?

The Chinese language files are broken in Kunena Latest. They are ISO 8859-15 Windows.
I've uploaded two zip files with four data for you. Please unzip these and copy it to:

language/zh-CN
language/zh-TW

admin/language/zh-CN
admin/language/zh-TW

Hi rich, thank you very much.

I copied these two files into the language/zh-CN folder inside the mod_kunenalatest_v3.1.1_2015-07-17.zip installation file and reinstalled this extension.
zh-CN.mod_kunenalatest.sys.ini
zh-CN.mod_kunenalatest.ini

The result is the Kunena Latest Post notification is display correctly, however the Joomla/Kunena login form still have the garbled characters problem.



The Kunena Latest topic notification display is fine now.


The Joomla/Kunena login form still display garbage characters.


Same for the zh-TW language set.

Please advise whether I did wrong, or something additional needs to be done? Thank you.

Here they are.