MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding - My Forums

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

bkvernst — Aug 17, 2007, 07:04 AM

I’ll check it out! Thanks for your information, OpenGeek

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

opengeek — Aug 16, 2007, 05:27 PM

First, check that all php files or other file inclusions that might contain markup included on the page are saved in the proper utf-8 encoding as well.

If that isn’t the issue, make sure you have utf8 specified as the $database_connection_charset value in your manager/includes/config.inc.php file. If that is set to utf8, then it’s likely a problem with how it is stored in the database, and you’ll need to correct it there.

Finally, double-check the collation set on your database and the tables themselves, and make sure they are set to utf8_general_ci (or utf8_unicode_ci, or another valid utf8 collation). If it is not, you’ll need to correct that, and likely convert all the content stored in those tables, in order to be able to display it properly in a web page as UTF-8.

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

bkvernst — Aug 16, 2007, 04:22 PM

I’m having a slight problem with the way snippets encode, in my example the HyperFlexSearchForm. I’m afraid the same problem goes for the rest of the snippets too, but this has not been tested.

My current site runs fine with UTF-8 encoding, which is set in the HTTP header, in the MODx configuration (logically enough), and I also submitted this at the database page during my MODx installation.

HyperFlexSearchForm calls a PHP script in the assets-folder, which contains a few text variables like search button text and standard form field text. When I use the Norwegian Æ Ø Å’s, these gets changed to totally different characters instead, as if they weren’t UTF-8 at all. Feel free to take a look at my development page and try to use the search field in the top menu. The form field text should have been "Søkeord...", and there’s also a few errors in my XHTML code.

Is this a MODx snippet parsing error, or should I address it directly to the HyperFlexSearchForm forum? Most importantly, are there any fixes for this error?

Development page: http://www.musikerportalen.org/_dev

Thanks (again )

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

CBieser — Jul 23, 2007, 04:30 AM

Question: Do you’ve added any encoding conversion while adding UTF-8 support to 0.9.6?

I wanted to update from 0.9.5 to 0.9.6. My 0.9.5 is already running with UTF-8 and now it seems that some parts getting converted again and appear as ISO-8859-1 chars but in UTF-8 encoding.

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

opengeek — Jun 05, 2007, 12:56 PM

The installer simply needs to be setting the header based on the selected language encoding. It’s a simple bug with a simple fix and is not a problem with his Apache config.

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

poof65 — Jun 05, 2007, 12:42 PM

I’ve searched a little in bug listing and i don’t have see this bug.

I’m not registered as bug reporter and i don’t want to do this now.

There is a clean way to correct this in adding

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=' . $_lang['encoding']);

under the line

require_once("lang.php");

or directly in lang.php

@davidm > i’ve tested the install script on my local server and on my lamp installation apache does not send encoding headers by default.
But with a little modification of the script there is a way to make it work even on misconfigured servers.

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

davidm — Jun 05, 2007, 12:37 PM

@Poof65 : Could this be that the headers sent by your server is set as Latin1 by default (as are still lots of french server) ?
If so using AddCharset in .htaccess could help...

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

opengeek — Jun 05, 2007, 12:27 PM

Quote from: poof65 at Jun 05, 2007, 05:21 PM

I’ve no problem with my modx site, i am just reporting a problem with the installation script of modx 0.9.6.

Oh, I see; I was misunderstanding what language files were being discussed...is there a bug report entered for this? If not, there needs to be...

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

poof65 — Jun 05, 2007, 12:21 PM

I’ve no problem with my modx site, i am just reporting a problem with the installation script of modx 0.9.6.

Re: MODx 0.9.6 and character encoding

opengeek — Jun 05, 2007, 12:16 PM

Whatever your MODx character encoding is set as will be used to set the header encoding. You can access this using the tag [(modx_charset)] or via the modx config, $modx->config[’modx_charset’]. Your template should then also use this tag to set the Content-Type meta element. I am guessing your database is running in latin1 but you are using a utf8 language file ?