1. Extensions
(About Joomla!/The CMS)

... and in the back-end using the Module Manager and editing the Module Position settings. For example, "left" and "right" are common for a 3 column layout. Displaying Modules Each Module is assigned to ...

2. My MySQL database does not support UTF-8. Do I have a problem?
(FAQs/General)

... installer take care of all the settings and there is no need to make any changes to the database (charset, collation, or any other). ...

3. What happened to the locale setting?
(FAQs/Current Users)

This is now defined in the Language [lang].xml file in the Language metadata settings. If you are having locale problems such as dates do not appear in your language for example, you might want to check/edit ...

4. Why does Joomla! 1.5 use UTF-8 encoding?
(FAQs/General)

Well... how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again? Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish? With utf-8 (a variant of Unicode) ...