[FIX] Problem with nickname

[guoxianghao]

Great web chat app!
When Chinese chat contents was typed in, it works as mentioned.
However, it seems that the nickname can't be assigned to a Chinese string this way:

$params["nick"]='莫人';
$chat = new phpFreeChat( $params );


IE will pop up a window saying "the XML response returned from the server can not be processed", and the nickname not properly displayed. What's more, more windows carrying the same information may appear.

What happened and how to fix the problem?
Thanks!

[phpfreechat]

What encoding are you using to edit the file ?
(by default phpfreechat handles UTF-8 strings)

[guoxianghao]

The encoding system to edit the file is GB2312, where two high ASCII chars(>0x80) representing one Chinese char. For example, 0xC4 0xAA represents Chinese char '莫'.

BTW, if I translate some information in phpfreechat( for instance, 'xx changes his nickname to yy') into Chinese, it can't be displayed correctly, only some "??????" is shown. Is this also the encoding issue? How to fix it ? Thanks a lot!

[phpfreechat]

Ok so try to convert your string before passing it to pfc, something like this (you need iconv php module installed) :

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$params["nick"] = iconv("GB2312", "UTF-8", '莫人');

If it doesn't work try to save your php source file directly in UTF-8.

About message translation, I suggest to :
1 . wait for 0.7 release because I just added a i18n ressources system (be carefull: ressources files *must* be encoded in utf-8)
2. try with the lastest subversion at http://www.phpfreechat.net/svn
Moreover I will be please to integrate your chinese translations in pfc official release.

Keep me informed.

[guoxianghao]

Chinese translation posted :
http://www.phpfreechat.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=14
If there's any problem, do not hesitate to contact with me.