charset / encoding issues (utf-8 � iso-8859-2)

[MiśUszatek]

I tried that... no change.
It looks like detects language (name sof the months are shown in Polish) but there is some kind of issue with coding special characters (while rest of the page is coded correctly and show special characters without any problems)

[Eric Barnes]

How about this:
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF8');
Basically add the .UTF8 to the end of the it.

[MiśUszatek]

that worked perfect, thanks
I will let you know if I find anything else

[Eric Barnes]

That sounds great. Would you mind posting the code you used to get it working? Just for future reference and I am adding this to our documentation section.

[MiśUszatek]

those 2 changes fixded the problem:


file: connections/classifieds.php

# Set the default encoding to utf-8
ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8');


file: lanuage/yourlanguage.php

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF8');

where de_DE is replaced with local language symbol (for ex. fr_FR for French / pl_PL for Polish)

[Eric Barnes]

Great and thanks for posting that. I have updated the docs here:
UTF-8 [68 Classifieds]

[MiśUszatek]

I found one more encoding related issue.

when I add listings via admin:
mysite.com/administration/listings.php?action=add

entered special characters are not encoded correctly

[Eric Barnes]

Was it a specific field or all fields in admin?

[MiśUszatek]

yes ...I created extra fields to enter addresses for listed properties. Once go to ad listing (in admin site)and try to add special/language related characters,.... they show messed up.

[MiśUszatek]

...actually I did few more tests and noticed that all entries typed in via extra fields share the same problem with special characters.

any idea?