Title / story with diferent chars and date()

Posted on 07 Mar 2010, 05:13:40

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Here I am again.

I'm working on a site that uses Portuguese language. So in Portuguese, there are some sort of punctuation on certain letters (e.g Lançamento or Fração). I use those words, and they work fine on my {story} or {shortstory}, but on the title, it gives me a different character. How can I fix that? (you can see an example here http://www.agat.com.br/noticias.php?id=4)

Now, the date/time my news are stored, are related to the date/time where my server is, which isn't the same timezone as I'm on. I did try to change the Time option at the system menu, adding a +3 to the option, but it didnt change a thing.

Thanks for your help

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Chris

Posted on 07 Mar 2010, 05:26:07

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For the title not showing properly, edit functions.php, around line 134~ you'll see this

Code:


$str = str_replace("{title}",$row[title],$str);

change that to

Code:


$str = str_replace("{title}",bbcode($row['title'],$usehtml),$str);

The timezone is in seconds, so changing it to +3 will only alter the time by 3 seconds. If you want to change it by 3 hours change it to +10800 or -10800 depending on which way you want to go.

#2054

Rschneider

Posted on 07 Mar 2010, 07:18:55

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Modifying the function doesn't seem to correct the problem. I still have the letters showing wrong. I tried with a new post to see, and didn't work.

The time fix worked flawless, thanks :)

thanks

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Chris

Posted on 07 Mar 2010, 18:39:41

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Try running this query against your database using a program like phpmyadmin

Code:


ALTER TABLE `news30_story` CHANGE `title` `title` VARCHAR( 255 ) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NULL DEFAULT NULL

Then try adding a new article to see if it shows correctly.

#2056

Rschneider

Posted on 07 Mar 2010, 23:18:58

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Unfortunately it didn't work.

What is working now (wasn't before, I tested), is if I use the actual html code on the title. For example:

To get Lançamento

I type

Lançamento

It's kinda of a pain, but at least keeps me running until we can find a solution. Just to point that on the {story} part of the news, it shows correctly.

EDIT: On the actual page title (I use javascript to update the page title with the story title), it shows now the html code on the place of the actual letter (shows ç instead of ç).

thanks for the effort

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Last edited by Rschneider at 2010-03-07 23:26:01 Reason: