Hi,

I have an odd question. I'm trying to update my site to the XOOPS format and have run into a problem with how the site is rendered. This problem happens with both IE and Firefox.

When not loged in the " and ' appear as ?. When logged in they show up correctly. Some users are getting little boxes instead. I do have international readers and they do use different character sets and keyboard layouts. One user reported this problem running Konqurer/Red Hat.

I also seem to be having some unicode problems as not all articles display properly. I've tried the standard HTML kinda fixes. I changed the main theme templete to use UTF-8, better, but still not right.

Anybody got a clue why this is happening?

If you want to see it in action try anotherealm.org.

-Puzzled.
-TIA

It seems to be ok, anyway if u plan to use Unicode, u have to go xoops_root/language/english/global.php and to change latest line from charset-8859-1 to utf-8

Second language have to be created in Unicode, such one of my sites -http://www.pzcci.org - BiLingual site based on XOOPS 2.0.13, both language files are unicoded, so u can see Bulgarian texts on my site, no matter can u understand them or not, simple with flag choosing.

Some themes for the old XOOPS 2.0 have hard linked to iso8859-1 charset definitions, so u have to check yours and to fix it to utf-8 (remeber to change and XOOPS core language files).

For example, if u're Russian and try with the existing translation to maintain bilingual site this will be unavailable, cos of Windows-1251 limitation.

Texts written in CP1251 will not be displayed in ISO8859-1 and the same and for ISO.

On dev.xoops.org u can get Spanish, Bulgarian and Indian (Gujarati) at the moment translated with Unicode.

Russian and Ukrainian are in state deep sleep :)
Polish, Finish and Swedish (lovely swedish) they never will be released as I can see.

Have you any idea about email messages? I have updated all language files to UTF-8, encoded email messages (user activation and others) to UTF-8 and still when I check in the header charset="iso-8859-1".

When I grep for ISO this is the only reference in my XOOPS site:



Everything else is UTF-8 charset. Do I have to change somewhere else email message encoding? Should I change this one to UTF-8, will it bring any other problems?

How about newbb, news, AMS and other modules, should I change the charset for other language to UTF-8 there? I know it is to make pdf file but even though I have updated language files to UTF-8 when pdf is generated it doesn't show properly. Even though the page encoding is in unicode. I'm getting frustrated.

For your email encoding you could try this. Replace the 'windows-1250' with 'utf-8', of course

I don't know about pdf file generation, can't help you there.

Rowd