difficulties in drupal with encoding

i would like to work on a website in order to develop other fonctionalities. It works on the server but not in localhost. I use MAMP on my MAC I use the server project.

The errors are :

Notice : Trying to get property of non-object in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/var/www/includes/path.inc on line 51

Sélectionner tout - Visualiser dans une fenêtre à part $path_language = $path_language ? $path_language : $language->language ;
warning : Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/var/www/includes/path.inc:51) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/var/www/includes/common.inc on line 148.

if (strlen($header)) { header($header) ; $stored_headers[] = $header ; }
warning : array_merge() [function.array-merge] : Argument #2 is not an array in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/var/www/includes/theme.inc on line 976.

$settings = array_merge($settings, variable_get(str_replace(‘/’, ‘’, ‘theme’. $key .’_settings’), array())) ;

Can you help me?

Solution

Try getting a fresh copy from the server to your machine following theses steps:

Get a database backup of the server
Create a database locally with the same collation as the server
Copy the files from the server to your machine while reserving their permissions, rsync would be a great tool to do that
alter drupal's settings file "sites/default/settings.php" to match your local database, it now should work fine