[FIX] Encoding Problem

by **pixelpeter** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:44 pm

As mentioned earlier I take my nicknames from the database, but when there're names containing special chars like ä,ö,ü the chat won't work.

Is set

Code: Select all: $params["output_encoding"] = "ISO-8859-1";

and also

Code: Select all: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

setting the nickname by

Code: Select all: $params["nick"] = 'äöü'

wont work

I also had no luck by using the php functions
- urlencoding
- rawurlencoding
- htmlspecialchars
- htmlentities

Then I resaved the file with Zend Studio as UTF-8 and tried the above combination, but nothing seems to work

Any idea ?!?!??

Thanx in advance !!!!

by **phpfreechat** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:20 pm

The nickname must be UTF-8 encoded, are you sure this line is UTF-8 encoded ?
$params["nick"] = 'äöü';

If this comme from a BDD where nicknames are ISO-8859-1 encoded, try this :
$params["nick"] = iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $bdd_nickname);
(just change $bdd_nickname with your nickname variable)

Keep me informed

by **pixelpeter** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:58 am

O.K: This fix works so far as you can now log in with a nickname containing spaces and special chars.
The display of the name is correct in the chat window, the user list, but not on the submit buttom (for sending the message). This is true for FF1.5.1 and IE6SP2

by **phpfreechat** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:37 am

What is your webpage encoding ??
Have you a public url to illustrate what you say ?

by **motosdeagua.es** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:25 pm

Thus I have the code, but with himself not to cause that it works thus with nicknames: (ramón, cigüeña, angüila, vía, ...)

Code: Select all: <?php require_once dirname(__FILE_b_)."/src/phpfreechat.class.php"; $pnnick = $_REQUEST['user']; $params = array("title" => "Chat", "max_msg" => 21, "prefix" => "blune_", "clock" => false, "serverid" => md5(__FILE__), "theme" => "blune", "frozen_nick" => true, "nick" => iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $pnnick), "output_encoding" => "ISO-8859-1", ); $chat = new phpFreeChat( $params ); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Chat</title> <?php $chat->printJavascript(); ?> <?php $chat->printStyle(); ?> </head> <body> <?php $chat->printChat(); ?> </body> </html>

I cannot either have the language thus:

Code: Select all: // line 398 in phpfreechat.class.php $GLOBALS["i18n"]["%s is connected"] = "%s está conectado";

Error in "está"

by **motosdeagua.es** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:36 pm

watch here: [url=http://www.motosdeagua.es/modules/chat/pn.php?user=SÍäA]DEMO[/url]

by **phpfreechat** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:13 pm

if you put :

Code: Select all: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

You must not convert the ISO-8859-1 nickname and output !
Remove :
"output_encoding" => "ISO-8859-1",
And change :
"nick" => iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $pnnick),
by :
"nick" => $pnnick,

by **motosdeagua.es** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:42 am

Code: Select all: <?php require_once dirname(__FILE_b_)."/src/phpfreechat.class.php"; $pnnick = $_REQUEST['user']; $params = array("title" => "Chat", "max_msg" => 21, "prefix" => "blune_", "clock" => false, "serverid" => md5(__FILE__), "theme" => "blune", "frozen_nick" => true, "nick" => $pnnick, ); $chat = new phpFreeChat( $params ); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Chat</title> <?php $chat->printJavascript(); ?> <?php $chat->printStyle(); ?> </head> <body> <?php $chat->printChat(); ?> </body> </html>

Also it fails....

by **phpfreechat** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:56 am

??? what is that : dirname(__FILE_b_)

by **motosdeagua.es** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:02 am

I don't know

by **phpfreechat** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:11 am

Why don't you take this demo as a starting point ?
http://www.phpfreechat.net/demo/pfc/dem ... panish.php

by **motosdeagua.es** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:27 am

Ok, using the demo as a starting point...
I do the necessary changes in order that to use the nicksnames of postnuke and we come to the same error...

Code: Select all: <?php require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/../src/phpfreechat.class.php"; $pnnick = $_REQUEST['user']; $params = array("serverid" => md5(__FILE__), "language" => "es_ES", "theme" => "blune", "frozen_nick" => true, "nick" => $pnnick, ); $chat = new phpFreeChat( $params ); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Chat</title> <?php $chat->printJavascript(); ?> <?php $chat->printStyle(); ?> </head> <body> <?php $chat->printChat(); ?> <?php // print the current file echo "<h2>The source code</h2>"; $filename = __FILE__; echo "<p><code>".$filename."</code></p>"; echo "<pre style="margin: 0 50px 0 50px; padding: 10px; background-color: #DDD;">"; $content = file_get_contents($filename); echo htmlentities($content); echo "</pre>"; ?> </body> </html>

Only I have changed this:

Code: Select all: require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/../src/phpfreechat.class.php"; $pnnick = $_REQUEST['user']; $params = array("serverid" => md5(__FILE__), "language" => "es_ES", "theme" => "blune", "frozen_nick" => true, "nick" => $pnnick, ); $chat = new phpFreeChat( $params );

by **phpfreechat** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:05 am

what is the $pnnick encoding ?
does it work if you force $pnnick to "guest" ?

by **motosdeagua.es** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:27 am

$pnnick = $_REQUEST['user']; // It uses the variable of the URL

http://www.motosdeagua.es/modules/chat/ ... r=yourname <- HERE

by **phpfreechat** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:01 pm

motosdeagua.es wrote:$pnnick = $_REQUEST['user']; // It uses the variable of the URL

http://www.motosdeagua.es/modules/chat/ ... r=yourname <- HERE

But WHY did you change the meta to ISO-8859-15 ?
By default output_encoding is UTF-8 so if you change the webpage meta, it will not match the output encoding ...

if you setup
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15" />
you must use
$params["output_encoding"] = "ISO-8859-15";
and you must pray your php support encoding convertion with iconv extention ...

Is suggest you to keep utf8 default encoding everywhere ... I don't understand why you want to make things more complicated...
The default demo works so don't change anything on encoding ! Keep things simple !

[FIX] Encoding Problem

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