Accents not displaying correctly...

[freddie3218]

yes. I can confirm it on my test forum!
This is a vBET bug so I need to move this thread into bug reporting section.

I noticed that there is a encoding issue with letters with ASCII code under Ā

I can reproduce it on my test forum so I can fix it without access to your forum

I will try to find the best solution for you.

Well the good news is that I fixed the problem myself. The bad news is that I cannot confirm that this solution will work as a replacement function... as it only works on my forums.

Regardless, here is the new function:

function vbet_encodeToSafeUTF8(&$string) {

     $string = utf8_decode($string);           
     return $string;
} 

This function converts UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

[kamilkurczak]

thanks for this good news. I will test it and confirm

[kamilkurczak]

hello,
Your solution is not good in generally. Why? This is working with letters with ASCII code under 256 (converted and displayed good) but letters with ASCII code over 256 I have "?" signs.

So We need to combine our two solutions in one

example:

function vbet_encodeToSafeUTF8(&$string) {
        
        $string = preg_replace('/([\340-\357])([\200-\277])([\200-\277])/e',        
                '\'&#\'.((ord(\'\\1\')-224)*4096 + (ord(\'\\2\')-128)*64 + (ord(\'\\3\')-128)).\';\'',    
                $string); 
     
        //decode two byte unicode characters 
        $string = preg_replace('/([\304-\337])([\200-\277])/e', 
                '\'&#\'.((ord(\'\\1\')-192)*64+(ord(\'\\2\')-128)).\';\'', 
                $string); 
        
        $string = utf8_decode($string);            
        
        return $string;
    } 

this line:

[\304-\337] 

define than letters with ASCII code under 256 will be not decoded by my function but only by

utf8_decode 

I am testing it still.I am not entirely sure that everything works correctly now.
You can test it too!

[freddie3218]

For my purposes, the solution works fine... as I'm only translating into two langauges... English and French. Both are ISO-8859-1 (latin1) languages. Therefore the "utf_decode" function works fine.

However, with a global scope in view, the utf_decode function will probably not work for other languages outside of "latin1".

I am not much of a vbulletin programmer. However, I will offer one suggestion:

Perhaps using an "If" statement may suit your purposes better if your solution does not work. In the example below, the "translated_language_var" would be the destination language to translate into.

IE:

$latin1 = array(English,French,Spanish,Italian....etc);

if (in_array(translated_language_var,$latin1)){

  $string = utf_decode($string);

}else{
  
  original solution;
}

return $string; 

Perhaps using something like this would be a sure method to keep everything safe...??? I'm sure you could easily use this pseudo code and make it work for vbulletin.

[kamilkurczak]

solved - will be included in the next relase