I have been using a FOSS software written in perl (sql-ledger) for many many years. Currently self hosted on CentOS 7. For some reasons, I need to update OS to a higher version (preferably Rocky/Alma 9).
Installed Apache and Postgresql 13, transferred all data and the software to a new Alma 9.
However, the non-english characters look garbled. No matter what I did, I couldn't fix it.
Here are what I did and findings:
- If the software is on CentOS 7, the database is on the new OS, all fine.
- Checked all the texts of the software. All are encoded as UTF-8.
- Encoding of the database is UTF-8. All data on the database look nice using Adminer.
- Installed Rocky/Alma 8 and Ubuntu 22.04, the problem persists.
- Tried many different versions of PostgreSQL, the problem persists.
- Source code of the served pages declare UTF-8 as character encoding.
- I normally use Firefox. Tried other browsers, the problem persists.
- All the new OS have the required UTF-8 locale.
The only solution for me is to have the software files on CentOS 7 irrespective of database location.
I'm at my wit's end with this problem. I am stumped and stuck with CentOS 7.
I would appreciate any help.
Thank you
