Foreign Characters Error

Posted on 29 May 2008, 20:19:53

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I tried to make a localization of this script For my Language "Georgian" (Tried to create categories and post news in my native Language),
But I have problem, foreign characters do not show correctly. It shows me octets

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Like this.. Then I Tried to alter the MySql collation to only UTF8_Unicode_ci, Not Worked. Then I tried to replace the function: "htmlspecialchars" with "htmlspecialcharsltgt". I Can't solve the problem. Read More About This Function _______________________

Chris! How To Overcome this problem, what do you thing

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Last edited by Pretorian at 2008-05-29 20:24:46 Reason:

Chris

Posted on 29 May 2008, 20:28:41

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Can you post some of the characters your trying to add as categories so I can do some testing with it?

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Pretorian

Posted on 29 May 2008, 20:34:52

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In Categories I created new category in "Georgian" Language, I also created a news in my language too.
In News List it is shown correctly, but when I click edit button it shows incorrectly "octets"

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Chris

Posted on 29 May 2008, 20:40:21

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What you need to do is, edit the 'modcategories.mod' file which is in the modules directory, on line 131 find this line

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echo "<tr bgcolor=\"$color\"><td><a href=\"?action=options&mod=categories&edit=true&id=$row[id]\">". htmlspecialchars($row[name]) . "</a></td><td>$posts</td><td><input value=\"$row[id]\" name=\"selectedcats[]\" type=\"checkbox\" /></td></tr>\n";

and replace it with this line

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echo "<tr bgcolor=\"$color\"><td><a href=\"?action=options&mod=categories&edit=true&id=$row[id]\">$row[name]</a></td><td>$posts</td><td><input value=\"$row[id]\" name=\"selectedcats[]\" type=\"checkbox\" /></td></tr>\n";

Save and upload that file, the categories should display fine after that.

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Last edited by Chris at 2008-05-29 20:42:10 Reason:

Pretorian

Posted on 29 May 2008, 20:57:31

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Cool! Chris Thanks
Categories Problem now Solved :smile:

We need to solve a news section, also posted news are displayed incorrectly too at the index page

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Last edited by Pretorian at 2008-05-29 21:02:21 Reason:

Chris

Posted on 29 May 2008, 20:59:49

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Ok what you need to do is, add the following function to config.php

Code:

function htmlspecialchars2($str) {
$str = str_replace('<','<',$str);
$str = str_replace('>','>',$str);
return $str;
}

Then edit the following files and replace 'htmlspecialchars' with 'htmlspecialchars2', you can do a search and replace to do an entire file at once.

These are the files you'll need to edit

Quote:

modules/addnews.mod
modules/editnews.mod
modules/private.mod
index.php

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Last edited by Chris at 2008-05-29 21:20:38 Reason:

Pretorian

Posted on 29 May 2008, 21:33:59

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Cool Chris! you're Super

News Management Section Works OK, Just one thing the first index.php shows errors....

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Chris

Posted on 29 May 2008, 21:35:39

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Can you post the error messages it shows?

#208

Pretorian

Posted on 29 May 2008, 21:41:45

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Chris this is not a system or php error.
I mean my language is displayed incorrectly "octets" at the index.php where the post is seen

#209

Chris

Posted on 29 May 2008, 21:52:12

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Edit 'bbparser.php', on line 84 it says

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$bb2html = htmlentities($bb2html, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'utf-8');

If you comment out this line by putting a # infront or just delete it, it should solve your problem.

What this means is the Allow/Disallow HTML function won't work, meaning if you create an Access Level and don't allow it to use HTML they still will be able.

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