The乱code problem caused by changing EmpireCMS from GBK to UTF-8 | Aisin Von: Documenting my internet life! (Note: The word "乱码" was directly translated as "乱code" which might not be contextually perfect in English. A more suitable translation could be "The garbled text problem caused by changing EmpireCMS from GBK to UTF-8.") Revised: The garbled text problem caused by changing EmpireCMS from GBK to UTF-8 | Aisin Von: Documenting my internet life!

The first time I used the Empire CMS, I downloaded the "Simplified ChineseGBK" version. Later, due to the virtual host going down, I stopped managing the website. Fortunately, I had backed up the data.

After some time, I decided to restore the website and, of course, I would still use the Empire CMS program. However, this time I downloaded the "Simplified Chinese UTF-8" version. I had no idea what fatal consequences this would bring to my website.

I uploaded the downloaded "Simplified Chinese UTF-8" version to the virtual host using FTP software, then proceeded with the installation. Everything went smoothly, and I was secretly pleased, thinking that restoring the website was so simple and success was just around the corner.