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DataObjectManager Module /

Discuss the DataObjectManager module, and the related ImageGallery module.

Moderators: martimiz, UncleCheese, Sean, Ed, biapar, Willr, Ingo, swaiba

UTF-8 Bug

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Johnny

Community Member, 34 Posts

14 June 2009 at 8:42am

Hi UncleCheeze!

Sorry to hassle with that, but there seems to be a UTF-8 encoding bug using the DataObjectManager and the latest trunk release of SilverStripe. This wasn't happening before.

I need the latest trunk release because I need translations. Since the latest trunk release is more stable than the beta release, I have no choice but using it. Why SS aren't releasing a stable 2.3.2 release? I donnu.

But here's the bug. Maybe there's a quick fix. I hope so :

Looking at the forum, SilverStripe's team claim that they handle UTF-8 caracters. All data is coded in UTF-8 values. So, if I have a page with accents in any text fields, it'll encode properly. Even though phpMyAdmin won't show correctly the accents, in the CMS and in the Live site, the accents show correctly.

If I use your DataObjectModule, I can enter UTF-8 caracters. They show well in the popup. But in the list, and in the live site, they don't show correctly. If I open the popup (edit the record) again, the accent shows well, but in the list, they don't. And one more wierd thing : if I look the record, in PhpMyAdmin, the accents show correctly (the normal behavior is they don't show correctly... because SS doesn't use MySQL directive SET CHARSET = 'utf-8').

I would like to send you a picture. But the forum doesn't allow me.

Any idea?

Thanks, JP

Johnny

Community Member, 34 Posts

14 June 2009 at 8:44am

picture? How can I send a picture as an attachment?

Johnny

Community Member, 34 Posts

14 June 2009 at 9:00am

Here's a PDF explaining the bug :
PDF

Johnny

Community Member, 34 Posts

14 June 2009 at 9:35am

RESOLVED !!!!!

Please, include charset meta-information in the head of your templates :

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
		<% base_tag %>
		<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-type"/>
	</head>

Thanks!

UncleCheese

Forum Moderator, 4102 Posts

15 June 2009 at 6:28am

Whew! Thanks a lot, Johnny. Glad it was a quick fix. You rock!

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