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member list character encoding

January 23, 2011 8:01pm

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  • #1 / Jan 23, 2011 8:01pm

    gylfisteinn

    41 posts

    Hi,
    am having a problem with the member list in EE 2.1.1. I imported 500 members vith xml and everything was looking fine at first. All names were displaying correctly. Then I moved the web from subfolder to the mainfolder (did nothing with the database, it stayed the same).

    Now all of a sudden the foreign characters in member name and member group name are displaying like it’s in the wrong encoding. On refreshing the member list page (members - view all) they appear correctly for a half a second or so but then you can see them change.

    Do you guys have any ideas on how to fix this?

    Gylfi

  • #2 / Jan 24, 2011 9:16am

    Sue Crocker

    26054 posts

    Hi, Gylfi.

    What’s the encoding for the page? Is it set to UTF-8?

    Do you have a link where we can see this?

  • #3 / Jan 24, 2011 9:21am

    gylfisteinn

    41 posts

    yes it is utf-8. This is the member page in the control panel in EE that I’m talking about. I’ll send you the access in MSG.

    Gylfi

  • #4 / Jan 24, 2011 3:17pm

    Ingmar

    29245 posts

    On refreshing the member list page (members - view all) they appear correctly for a half a second or so but then you can see them change.

    Do you’ve got a link? I’ve seen this before, I think it was the server overriding the user specified encoding with a server-side default. Can you make sure there is no AddDefaultCharset directive in place?

  • #5 / Jan 24, 2011 5:59pm

    gylfisteinn

    41 posts

    I just sent you the link in a private message.

  • #6 / Jan 25, 2011 3:50pm

    Ingmar

    29245 posts

    Perhaps a client side override, i.e. in your browser? Using the login you sent me I am seeing the list, and it’s fine:

      Forsíða
        Textasíða
        Sjúkraþjálfun

    and so on. What browser are you using?

  • #7 / Jan 25, 2011 4:00pm

    gylfisteinn

    41 posts

    Hi,
    yes everything is looking fine - except form the member list. Go to “Members” and “View all”...

    Gylfi Steinn

  • #8 / Jan 25, 2011 4:32pm

    Ingmar

    29245 posts

    I am afraid everything points to a server issue. This header is returned:

    Content-Type:    text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

    which explains what I am seeing. Perhaps ask your host about it?

  • #9 / Jan 26, 2011 5:56am

    gylfisteinn

    41 posts

    Hi,
    problem solved - that was the case. The server was set to iso-8859.

    Thanks!

    Gylfi

  • #10 / Jan 26, 2011 3:35pm

    Ingmar

    29245 posts

    Very glad to hear that’s been resolved. Please post again as needed.

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