Hi LS community! We are creating a survey for international participants but every time I type or paste Arabic letters, it turns into question marks after saving.

LS version: 4.1.2

Thanks for all your help!

In question text ?
Or answers by user ?

Maybe issue related to SQL ?

Denis

On 3.X : github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/0c...lease_notes.txt#L887

bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=15662

Hi Denis. I was just starting to build the survey so the question marks were in the survey title, description, and questions. I'm a beginner here at LS too so not sure what SQL means. Thanks

SQL is usually referring to the database. If the database has the wrong setting, it might not accept some characters.

Where is your Limesurvey Installation hosted and who is responsible for the administration of it and server?

Thanks Holch! It's hosted on our university's server and I might be able to contact someone in case admin changes are needed. Is there an article somewhere that talks about the 'right' setting to use?

I am not a server or database specialist, so I prefer not to make any recommendations there. I just remember that people with similar problems needed to adapt the database settings.

However, usually the adminstrators of university installations are very, let's say "conservative" when it comes to changes to the installation, especially those that would impact all users (like in this case).

Denis or Jelo might know better.