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Funny Characters

August 30, 2007 12:32pm

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  • #1 / Aug 30, 2007 12:32pm

    MSimos

    62 posts

    Hello again,

    I have installed ee in a subdomain and set up a new blog. I do get funny characters out of nowhere for specific characters 3 or 4 of them from the Greek vocabulary. Although I do not see the funny characters when I preview a weblog post, they apear when the post is submited and it’s visible in CP too. Is there an explenation for this cause its really annoying! See the attached files please…

  • #2 / Aug 30, 2007 1:11pm

    grantmx

    1439 posts

    “Looks like Greek to me!” Ha!

    Do you think it has something to do with the language pack?  Can we look at the code it spits out?

  • #3 / Aug 30, 2007 1:19pm

    MSimos

    62 posts

    Looks Greek to you my friend cause it is Greek!  :cheese:

    There is no language pack in this, hasn’t got to do with that. There is no code here too, the first screenshot is from the Contol Panel Publish Tab.

  • #4 / Aug 30, 2007 1:45pm

    grantmx

    1439 posts

    What version of EE are you running?

  • #5 / Aug 30, 2007 1:47pm

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    In your General Configuration, what is your “Default Character Set”?  That setting determines what character set your control panel pages are delivered in, which also affects the character set your browser sends form data in.  My recommendation is that you use UTF-8 (and do not auto convert high ASCII characters).

  • #6 / Aug 30, 2007 1:52pm

    grantmx

    1439 posts

    My bad I overstepped my level.  :zip:  :red:

  • #7 / Aug 30, 2007 2:00pm

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    My bad I overstepped my level.  :zip:  :red:

    Nah, your questions were good, thanks for stepping in!

  • #8 / Aug 30, 2007 4:53pm

    MSimos

    62 posts

    Thank you for your answer Derek. I haven’t played around with encoding at all. In General Configuration encoding is in UTF-8, it is set by default. If it was an encoding issue, then I presume all the characters would be funny. The weird here is that only 3 or 4 characters become funny and always the same ones.

  • #9 / Aug 30, 2007 4:57pm

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    What characters, and what browser are you using?  And do you have an browser add-ons installed?

  • #10 / Aug 31, 2007 2:24am

    MSimos

    62 posts

    I am using Safari, no plugins. But I don’t think its a browser issue. I have another copy of ee installed in a different domain and everything works fine there, same computer same browser.

  • #11 / Aug 31, 2007 10:32am

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    ...and what characters in particular?

  • #12 / Aug 31, 2007 12:38pm

    MSimos

    62 posts

    Typing Greek characters 3 or 4 out of the 24 in the Greek alphabet look like the screenshots for example:


    Thats how the Greek word should look like: Δοκιμή
    and thats how it looks like: Δοκιμ�?

    The system after submiting the post replaces the Greek character “ή” with “�?”. As I said the problem is with only 3 or 4 letters.

  • #13 / Aug 31, 2007 1:01pm

    Lisa Wess

    20502 posts

    Can you see the characters properly here? I wonder if it’s a font issue on your machine.

    Also, do you have a link to the site, so that we can see what’s going on? Preferably a page where we can see the problem in action.

  • #14 / Sep 01, 2007 7:53am

    MSimos

    62 posts

    Yes I can see the characters properly here, thats how I wrote the correct word “Δοκιμή” in my previous message. I can give you a link to the page but the problem comes from the ee CP and not the code. Heres the link http://erotimatiko.maclife.gr/

  • #15 / Sep 01, 2007 7:54am

    MSimos

    62 posts

    And another screenshot from the ee Control Panel

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