Hi, I have the same problem. I had only one language setting (English) and everything was OK before I upgraded. All Finnish characters (äåö) make rest of the data to disapper. I changed language settings to
define('_CHARSET', 'ISO-8859-1');
with no help. I checked that my mysql-database is set on Finnish...
Apua! That's Help in Finnish

Thanks carnuke! I got this working. So I made a file with these include("mainfile.php"); & include("header.php"); etc. Works ok!

Next question is, how to use a custom block same way? Maid in Block Administration. (reason for this is, that I have not so competent webmasters who really need easy way to update data ).

Well it does not fix the problem. Perhaps I was not enough precise, my poor English is the first reason, even poorer programming skills the second...

Your hint on FAQ is already tested. So I can get a new custom menu item. Problem is that this new page "newcontent.html" or what so ever opens a new window (actually goes "_top") and not into my centre "frame".

So what is the magic way to write a static page, save it into db and open it with custom menu item into centre "frame" using valid css?

cheers,
juke

I made a simple text custom block. I'd like to have a link in the menu. I just wonder how to refer to the custom block?

In block administration I put the block in center - center, invisible.

Do I have to make a module, or use some available modules to have this simple effect?

Other question concerns News module. Is it possible get news_index (beginning of the stories, not just list of the links) to top page right center block? I can of cource select News as top page in general preferences, but then I will lose all other top page blocks. I tryed to hack theme.html, but when I got Top page right, it showed same when News selected...

Just 5 days using xoops... be patient.