Special caracters

jupiter4 · Beginner Joined: Aug 08, 2005 Posts: 7

Hello,

I have integrated Gallery2 on my PHP Nuke Platinum 7.6 website. Almost all seems to be working fine.
There is a little problem that begun when I have integrated the gallery.
I'm portuguese, so my website as portuguese language as an option, in fact is the default language and portuguese language uses special caracters as ç é í à õ etc, etc.
This caraters don't show up anymore. In their place, there is a small square. This is very anoying ...

Is there a way to fix this? Anyone as any ideas ? Dari ?

Thank you in advance

PS: This is the website: http://lightcrew.net/website/index.php
(I have already changed some in the navigation menu, using html code )

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NoFantasy · Beginner Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

I have the same issue with my installation (Nuke 7.5, gallery 2RC1(build 34))
I had the same issue with Gallery2 beta4.
I'm not sure if its a problem with Gallery itself or the integreation-package (actually, i do not know where to start looking).

I have tried to change some basic stuff as the standard-language in Gallery to English but without any luck.

Hope any of the gallery-guru's have any ideas, in the meantime i'll look for a solution myself.

dari · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:20 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

in modules/gallery2/index.php look for:
$g2currentlang = $phpnuke2G2Lang[$currentlang];

and put

echo $g2currentlang;

after it to see if it outputs your proper language.
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NoFantasy · Beginner Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

It says "no" Laughing

So, yes the output is correct in that case (no=norwegian).

dari · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:00 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

actually, i think i know the problem here. Gallery2 is a UTF-8 application, whereas phpnuke sends it's headers as ISO-8859-1.....
you can try to edit your phpnuke header file so that the ISO portion is replaced by UTF-8.
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NoFantasy · Beginner Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

Not sure if I understood you right.
Edit the ../language/'currentlang'.php ...?

Code: › define("_CHARSET","ISO-8859-1");

to

Code: › define("_CHARSET","UTF-8");

or...?

dari · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:21 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

no i mean edit the header.php file of your phpnuke.
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NoFantasy · Beginner Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

Hm ok...Guess there's some kind of differenses here.
This is the latest header.php [sourceforge.net] for nuke 7.5 and i can't find anything to edit...

dari · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:33 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

add this line:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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NoFantasy · Beginner Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

Ok, we are talking about the same then Very Happy

That meta-tag is defined in the language-file (../includes/meta.php gets it from the languagefile).

Code: › define("_CHARSET","ISO-8859-1");

to

Code: › define("_CHARSET","UTF-8");

Anyway, i've changed it to UTF-8 without any luck. Still showing up with the strange chars...

NoFantasy · Beginner Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

I checked the encoding in my browser...both IE and Firefox reads the http://www.domain.com/modules.php?name=gallery2 as Unicode (UTF- Cool

(even with the <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> in header)
When I manually choose Western European (ISO) it shows up as it's supposed to, with all the special chars.

Any idea how to solve this permanently? Is it just my site or is it every site with special characthers?

NoFantasy · Beginner Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

Ok, I'll do my research better next time Embarassed

Seems to me alot of people has the same issue around the world and not only with php-nuke:
http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?na ... ic&t=33361

Pity the developers do not consider this issue as a "bug" or seem to be willing to fix or suggest any solutions to the problem that works. If I find anything that may work permanently, i'll let you guys know.

Thanks for your time Dari, at least I got to try out some of the possibilities Very Happy

jupiter4 · Beginner Joined: Aug 08, 2005 Posts: 7

Hello,

I have tried to add that code line to the nuke header.php. Didin't worked, in fact it got worse, I mean, this problem only happens when the gallery is showing, but with that code line added to the header file, the problem happens everytime in every page.

So, for now, I'm just changing the nukes portuguese language files and replace all special caracters to html code.

Thank you for your help guys.

dari · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:19 am Post subject: Re: Special caracters

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.
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NoFantasy · Beginner Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

jupiter4 wrote: › ....and replace all special caracters to html code

This is what I did too. Probably the fastest way to fix this problem, in my case it took 15 minutes to change the necessary chars to html-code.

I found the html-codes i needed at http://www.lookuptables.com/ (under the html-codes menu) if anyone else need to convert their special chars Very Happy