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Offline Bizman

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AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« on: July 24, 2011, 02:33:30 AM »
This is the closest forum by topic I could find to report this: For a couple of weeks now umlauted a and o have not shown properly. This is not only my problem, it has been documented to affect the whole Finnish AH community since July 16th. I suppose the same goes with the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Germans.

Or, dare I suppose, this is a conspiracy to force us to type in English also on our Squad Forums in case some Three Letter Organization wants to bypass the login passwords to spy our tactics in the next scenario?  :noid
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2011, 02:36:54 AM »
Is that the two dots on top of some letters? :D
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2011, 02:55:12 AM »
your right.they come up as question marks.alt+0252= ?  (u with 2 dots) but it comes up as a ?
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2011, 02:58:07 AM »
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Offline Bizman

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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2011, 05:30:32 AM »
Yep, it's about the dots. I just tested with the trema button on my keyboard, and it seems to affect all letters having double dots on them. Thus it affects even more languages, even English. Not to mention French, Turkish, Albanian... You name it.
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Offline RTHolmes

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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2011, 08:57:45 AM »
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thats strange, the forum and all the stuff behind it should be able to handle multiple character sets  :headscratch:
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2011, 01:10:51 PM »
Looks like there's mismatch between doc charset (ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1) and DB (UTF-8).
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2011, 01:19:59 PM »
Test: &euml
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2011, 01:22:56 PM »
Noticed the same, also the degrees symbol doesn't display anymore.
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2011, 01:29:45 PM »
Quote from: 2bighorn on July 25, 2011, 01:10:51 PM
Looks like there's mismatch between doc charset (ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1) and DB (UTF-8).

yeah I'd be looking at the char encoding in the MySQL tables, Ive had them change after reimporting tables and/or upgrading it. :old:
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2011, 02:57:49 PM »
whoops, wrong topic.
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2011, 03:45:40 PM »
Quote from: RTHolmes on July 25, 2011, 01:29:45 PM
yeah I'd be looking at the char encoding in the MySQL tables, Ive had them change after reimporting tables and/or upgrading it. :old:

Well at least it isn't something that Skuzzy could screw up!  :devil
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2011, 05:20:22 PM »
I couldnt possibly comment on that ... :uhoh
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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2011, 06:48:51 AM »
the euro symbol isn't working either

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Re: AH Bulletin Board umlaut problem
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2011, 09:45:28 AM »
Already checked the encoding Holmes.  It is set to UTF8 and so is the board.  Not sure what happened yet.  Still trying to find the bug.

EDIT:  Ahhhhh.  It seems SMF has limited character set support for UTF8.  I'll need to switch it, which is going to require some effort as they do not have a tool to undo UTF8 support.  At least, not for the version we are running.

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Ok, see if it works now folks.  A little hacking into the SMF source might do the trick.
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