I just have a chance to play around with ZenMagick, an extension of ZenCart. ZenCart is one of the most popular shopping cart software. After I followed the installation process. everything seems to work fine until I found that ZenMagick doesn't support UTF-8 in the front end. What you have to do to make it support is : 1. Search for this file -> zenmagick\themes\default\lang\english\i18n.php , Open it. 2. Change from 'LC_TIME_LOCALE' => 'en_US.ISO_8859-1', to 'LC_TIME_LOCALE' => 'UTF-8',