I have one problem with charset, I need UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1.
I tried there to set up it:
(whmcs language )
but it is not working.
I tied this:
But it still show at homepage this:
Client area is working.
I just need this at homepage Ä Ö Ü ß *
I hope someone can help.
thanks
Did you try it without ISO-8859-1? After removing it you may need to re-type the strings again. UTF-8 should work, we use it with Arabic and it is perfect.
Check database and tables, they should be UTF-8 as well, and there are tools to convert tables to UTF-8. check this script:
https://gist.github.com/wesamly/2c994e6bd4466151b60b
Note: Backup your database before converting.
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In my rails app I work a lot with cyrillic characters. Thats no problem, I store them in the db, I can display it in html.
But I have a problem exporting them in a plain txt file. A string like "элиас" gets "—ç–ª–∏–∞—Å" if I let rails put in in a txt file and download it. Whats wrong here? What has to be done?
Regards,
Elias
Obviously, there's a problem with your encoding. Make sure you text is in Unicode before writing it to the text file. You may use something like this:
ic = Iconv.new('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8')
your_unicode_text = ic.iconv(your_text + ' ')[0..-2]
Also, double check that your database encoding is UTF-8. Cyrillic characters can display fine in DB and in html with non-unicode encoding, e.g. KOI8-RU, but you're guaranteed to have problems with them elsewhere.
The character encoding starts to irritate me.
It took me a while to get everything from the DB in the right encoding on the screen, but with help from the i18n helper, this worked out.
Now I only have one more problem: saving text...
If i add some letters with accents (eg é ç ...) in a text field and want to save it, already in my controller it show as some exotic combination of characters.
Could someone tell me why this is and how I can fix this.
Everything is in UTF-8 btw
Thanks!
//Edit:
When I save the form, this is my log output
Parameters: {"free_text"=>"test 1 2 é",
And everything is capable of UTF-8...
Can you illustrate your output?
Let me guess your situation.
Supposed that you log those characters in controller in log/development.log or production.log.
If you view that log in terminal, you should ensure your terminal is capable to show UTF-8, with appropriate font. Also, your shell is capable to show UTF-8 and so do your the text viewer.
I have a bugging problem. For a website I made there are search engine friendly URL's generated. The only problem is there are ß-chars in the url too. Chars like ö, ï, ä, ü etc. are placed correct. But with the ß-char there is a diamond-icon with a questionmark in it.
I thought it had to do with the charset which is used but i've tried both UTF-8 and iso-8859-1. Both without luck.
I need to have the correct character in the url for the readability of deeplinks.
Solved the problem with iconv function.
I have a bugging problem. For a website I made there are search engine friendly URL's generated. The only problem is there are ß-chars in the url too. Chars like ö, ï, ä, ü etc. are placed correct. But with the ß-char there is a diamond-icon with a questionmark in it. -> �
I thought it had to do with the charset which is used but i've tried both UTF-8 and iso-8859-1. Both without luck.
I need to have the correct character in the url for the readability of deeplinks.
does the character U+00DF in UTF8 work with you?
i tried to use it on Firefox and the URL was translated into ss
in URL encoding, the U+00DF should be translated to %DF
Thanks for your answers, both + 1. I've solved the problem by using the iconv function, which is installed by default.
My environment.rb is like this:
ActionMailer::Base.default_charset = "iso-8859-1"
which should be enough for accents, but here is how the message's subject is being sent:
Convite para participação de projeto
Does anyone know what I have to do to fix it?
Is your data in iso-8859-1? From the look of the error example, it seems to be two bytes per character (note the repetition of Ã). Since 8859-1 uses 1 byte per character, my guess is that your data is in utf-8 format.
Also check that your db is not doing any conversions on data going in or out.
I urge you to use unicode / utf-8 everywhere--database, html, emails, etc. It's what all of the kool-kids are using these days. 8859-1 is so last century!
Regarding emails
config.action_mailer.default_charset = "utf-8"
is what I use.
Just remove your setting and let Rails do the work using the default charset, UTF-8.
I work with emails and special characters all the time, there's no need to perform any kind of conversion or setting, at least not on Rails 3. As long as your strings contains the right characters, you'll be fine.
Just make sure the encoding error is not ocurring when reading the data from your database.