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Wed, 09/23/2009 - 07:48

dicegame

Joined: 18/09/2009

Posts: 9

Latvian Character Encoding Issue

I run a Latvian website. My current charset is set to ISO-8859-4.

Now I've noticed that when i type Latvian Characters into an FCK Editor text area and hit submit, it converts my latvian into strange characters.

The code I have is:

window.addEvent('domready', function() {
   $('myForm').addEvent('submit', function(e) {
      var content = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('comment').GetXHTML();
      $('comment').setProperty('value',content)
      e.stop();
      var log = $('log_res').empty().addClass('ajax-loading');
      this.set('send', {onComplete: function(response) { 
         log.removeClass('ajax-loading');
         log.set('html', response);
      }});
      this.send();
   });
});

This issue is only present when i use ajax for a form. Standard HTML forms work fine.

Thanks guys

Wed, 09/23/2009 - 07:52

dicegame

Joined: 18/09/2009

Posts: 9

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

Wed, 09/23/2009 - 08:27

mosipov

Joined: 22/02/2008

Posts: 574

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

What are strange chars for you? The editor is supposed to work correctly with UTF-8 only.

Wed, 09/23/2009 - 08:31

dicegame

Joined: 18/09/2009

Posts: 9

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

mosipov wrote:What are strange chars for you? The editor is supposed to work correctly with UTF-8 only.

Well some characters with accents get converted into ???? or other stuff. So I need to change my character encoding into UTF-8 (from meta tag). Then ajax forms should work well? I'll give that a shot. But i'm afraid that items on my page will no longer show up well because they used another charset (ISO-8859-4).

Wed, 09/23/2009 - 08:47

mosipov

Joined: 22/02/2008

Posts: 574

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

Try in an isolated environment first. Make sure that your server deliver files as UTF-8 too.

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 16:06

dicegame

Joined: 18/09/2009

Posts: 9

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

Hello mosipov,

I changed my charset to UTF-8. Still same issue.

Tried using it in a separate file away from my CMS...still in the same issue. Files are UTF-8.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks so much, if you can work closer with me I'd gladly pay for your services to fix this issue, as I plan on launching many sisters sites that run in different languages and it would be vital for me to get this feature up.

Best Regards,
Thomas

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 20:32

mosipov

Joined: 22/02/2008

Posts: 574

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

Please try to inspect the request with Fiddler or Firebug and attach a log. I can have a look at the bytes and determine what's going on.

Mon, 10/05/2009 - 02:18

dicegame

Joined: 18/09/2009

Posts: 9

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

[b]Response Headers[/b]
Date   Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:10:47 GMT
Server   Apache/2.2.8 (Unix)
X-Powered-By   PHP/5.1.6
Content-Length   381
Connection   close
Content-Type   text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
[b]Request Headers[/b]
Host   xxxxxxxx.net
User-Agent   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009082707 Firefox/3.0.14 GTB5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept   text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
Accept-Language   en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding   gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset   ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive   300
Connection   keep-alive
X-Requested-With   XMLHttpRequest
Content-Type   application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Referer   xxxxxxxxx url
Content-Length   111
Cookie   cookies
Pragma   no-cache
Cache-Control   no-cache

Mon, 10/05/2009 - 09:15

mosipov

Joined: 22/02/2008

Posts: 574

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

As you can see, your ajax request wants to have utf-8 but your server delivers iso88591. You have to set the encoding right in your reponse. Probably in PHP or in static content in your .htaccess.

Tue, 10/06/2009 - 12:19

#10

dicegame

Joined: 18/09/2009

Posts: 9

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

Thank you so much!!!

Works perfectly, you are a champion...pm me your paypal and I'll make a donation if you wish.

Tue, 10/06/2009 - 13:11

#11

mosipov

Joined: 22/02/2008

Posts: 574

Re: Latvian Character Encoding Issue

I am glad I was able to help you.