1. Does the PDF icon render pictures and special characters?
(FAQs/Languages)

... is rendered and applied to the PDF. The PDF generator also handles the UTF-8 texts and can handle any character sets from any language. The appropriate fonts must be installed but this is done automatically ...

2. What is the purpose of the collation selection in the installation screen?
(FAQs/Languages)

... If you don't know which collation you need, select the "utf8_general_ci" as most languages use this. The other collations listed are exceptions in regards to the general collation. If your language is ...

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

No you don't. Versions of MySQL lower than 4.1 do not have built in UTF-8 support. However, Joomla! 1.5 has made provisions for backward compatibility and is able to use UTF-8 on older databases. Let the ...

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) ...