iso character sets - admin control panel

[seymourjames]

Is there a solution to allow iso character sets to be used in the admin control panel - specifically in extrafields (my current ptobrem). If I use a character like � or � the extrafield will not show in the drop down search menu. Likewise iso characters get messed up if they are used in the heading or body of an advert (placed through the admin control panel).

[darek]

my langage has lots of ążćźńł etc, I switche to UTF-8
please read this: charset / encoding issues (utf-8 � iso-8859-2)

if you don't want to have problems go fo windows-1250, however other coding will work, but you need to remember
1) admin and front need to use the same coding
2) you need to name/create things with the same coding

if you created extra fields with utf-8 and display them using iso - they will not work!

[seymourjames]

I have iso set in my administration/templates directory (specifically in layout.tpl) but where else would it need to be changed to cover the extrafields etc. I just checked the source of the pages in the administration control panel and as you would expect all of them are set

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

My display pages through the nromal layout.tpl are also all

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

However, if I enter an extrafield or text in the title from within the administration control panel they either do not show or come out as a mess. This is strange because in many of the other pages defined through the admin control panel, iso characters are accepted and then rendered correctly.

[darek]

in your langage files you may have to change this:

PHP Code:

ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8');
// Set the PHP locale to English
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF-8');

// Language Info
define("LANG_CHARSET_CODE","UTF-8"); 

I removed 
//setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.UTF-8');
and since then I have languge change fot time

just change 
UTF-8 to iso-8859-1 or maybe ISO8859-1 


however you must know that UTF-8 is used through out 68c and you may have some additional problems, you'd better stick with UTF-8

I also had to change these lines in pages.php

PHP Code:

                    //$class_tpl->assign('pPageTitle',safeStripSlashes(htmlentities($rs['pPageTitle'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')));
                    //$class_tpl->assign('pPageContent',safeStripSlashes(htmlentities($rs['pPageContent'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')));
                    $class_tpl->assign('pPageTitle',safeStripSlashes($rs['pPageTitle']));
                    $class_tpl->assign('pPageContent',safeStripSlashes($rs['pPageContent'])); 


[seymourjames]

My problem is that the vast majority of my customers have French keyboards and they use characters like �,�,� etc. I already made the changes to the main language file and it works no problem for what they enter through their front-end when they place adverts. No errors or spurious characters. No problems with RSS feeds neither.

However, I set the language to iso in the layout.tpl file for the administration folder but I cannot get the extrafields to de defined with certain iso characters in them.

1. extrafields cannot make use of �,�, etc
2. the tile of an adverts is also problematical if defined through the admin control panel. It messes up what they have already typed.

What is strange though is that the body of the advert when put in through the admin control panel works fine. No problems.

Wy would just these two things not not work when the rest does. It is like language.tpl file is being ignored.

So basically I have a 90% solution but it would be nice to have it 100%.