Special caracters

fulbrich · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:21 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

dari wrote: › the problem is that Gallery2 is a UTF-8 application, and PHPNuke is ISO-8859-1. THe conflicting headers mangle the character sets. There's not much you can do about this other than change phpnuke's header to output UTF-8 as the charset.

I changed lang-engish.php and lang-german.php to UTF-8 by changing to define("_CHARSET","UTF-8" ) . The behaviour didn't change. If I take at the look of the html-source by using my IE, it shows <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> in the head section. I was so hopefull that the workaround may work, it doesn't.

Bye
Frank

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dari · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:31 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

try changing the encoding scheme at the top of:
nuke-root/language/lang-<yourlanguage>.php
You will need to change:
define("_CHARSET","ISO-8859-1");
to
define("_CHARSET","UTF-8");

and in
nuke-root/modules/Forums/language/lang-<yourlanguage>.php
you'll have to do the same.

fulbrich · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:40 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

dari wrote: › try changing the encoding scheme at the top of:
nuke-root/language/lang-<yourlanguage>.php
You will need to change:
define("_CHARSET","ISO-8859-1");
to
define("_CHARSET","UTF-8");
and in
nuke-root/modules/Forums/language/lang-<yourlanguage>.php
you'll have to do the same.

Hi dari,
I changed in
C:\srv\www\Nuke75\html\modules\Forums\language\lang-english.php
C:\srv\www\Nuke75\html\language\lang-english.php
C:\srv\www\Nuke75\html\language\lang-german.php

Section of my language-file :
/*define("_CHARSET","ISO-8859-1");*/
define("_CHARSET","UTF-8");
define("_SEARCH","Search");

and I had no sucess.

This is the result in my NEWS Block in the middle of the page
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Willkommen ...
֠= OE Ġ= AE ߠ= SZ ܢel , Ħfeln User : gast Pw : gastuser
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The output is fine, when I remove the G2 Photoblock which shows random photos, from the webpage.

dari · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:59 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

you might want to google around for methods of fixing this. i don't know of any others off the top of my head, and since my site is all english, i can't really test it here. i'd also suggest getting a petition, or something like that, sent to the developer of phpnuke requesting that he change the default charset to UTF-8.

fulbrich · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:12 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

dari wrote: › sent to the developer of phpnuke requesting that he change the default charset to UTF-8.

Dari,
thanks for your replies. The petition may be a good suggestion. I'll send them an email with my questions.

Just a last sentence :
The changes result is that this is now part of the htmlsource viewed by my IE :
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Sitename </title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="0">
<META NAME="RESOURCE-TYPE" CONTENT="DOCUMENT">
<META NAME="DISTRIBUTION" CONTENT="GLOBAL">
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Sitename">

The codepage is now UTF-8 and the IE selected Unicode. I have to switch back in IE to Western to get my german special characters. Nevertheless - Dari, thanks for your support. Idea

fulbrich · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:46 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

Hi *

my next step is to convert the mySQL NUKE Database to UTF-8.
This may be a hint: http://cpgnuke.com/FAQ/cat=14.html#52

dari · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

please let us know if this works, this would make lots of people happy Smile

fulbrich · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:25 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

Hi Dari,
I tested the databaseconversion of PHP-Nuke 7.5 last night. It seems to work. Let me have some more testing and I'll write a little summary about this in the evening.
What I did :
I changed some lang-files in PHP-NUKE.
I created a new database with UTF-8 settings.
I exported the old data into a sql skript.
I converted the data with iconv.exe from latin to UTF-8.
I created the new tables with contence by using the modified sql skript in the new database.
What happened :
I changed the collation of the database, but not for each table and imported the converted data. It works, but I am not shure if this way is ok. Has each table collation to be converted, too ?

Bye Frank

dari · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:17 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

it's the best we've got so far...keep up the good work and keep us filled in Smile

fulbrich · Last edited by fulbrich on Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:02 am; edited 1 time in total

dari wrote: › it's the best we've got so far...keep up the good work and keep us filled in Smile

Hi dari,
I finished my documentation with screenshots and would like to convert it to PDF. Is it possible to upload/host my document somewhere on this website Question

.

dari · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:39 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

actually, if you email it to me: dari AT nukedgallery DOT net, I can convert to PDF and post it up here if you'd like.

fulbrich · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject: Re: Special caracters

dari wrote: › actually, ... post it up here if you'd like.

Hi,
I finished my document and posted it to dari. Razz

He will upload it to this site. I described what I did on 3 Nuke 7.5 installations. The procedure was successful on 2 installtion and failed on 1 Rolling Eyes

... unfortunetely my own homepage.

I am very interested in the experiences of other users.... maybe a bit is missing or can be added to the description. You can download it from my homepage as well, but the line is slow and not very relieable.

http://ulbrich.homelinux.com/modules.ph ... load&cid=3 (old version)

fulbrich · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:23 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

Hello,
I did some more testings and found out, that this isn't a 100% solution. It is hard to say.... I have to go to Dragonfly (php-nuke version) or to copperfield. To be honest I am little bit disappointed. Sad

I need national Characters on my website. Maybe I have to change the characters in the language-files to UTF Code, too ?

dari · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:40 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

yes, the language files for phpnuke would have to be converted to UTF-8, as well.

fulbrich · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:12 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

dari wrote: › yes, the language files for phpnuke would have to be converted to UTF-8, as well.

Hi gari,
I think everything is fine, now. I substituted all national characters ÄäÜö ... in the language-german.php files. There is now no problem anymore with displaying this characters with gallery2 embedded. I updated my howto and sent it to you with PM (version 1.3). Maybe you like to upload it to your site.

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