Pending approval email notification - wrong encoding?

[FishingManMatt]

Hello,

As a site admin I receive email notifications about some topics pending approval.

The problem is that both email subject and its body have some encoding problems and I see some strange signs in place of diacritics of my native language.

I found the translation in "scheduled_approval" array in the EmailTemplates.polish-utf8.php - it is encoded in UTF-8 w/o BOM.
All other email notifications generated by this template are displayed correctly.

[Chas Large]

Have you checked the versions of the files in Admin? It could be an update to the system has been made but the language files also need updating.

[margarett]

It might also be a problem in the language file itself (can you please check a fresh language download) or maybe you used a mod for editing the email templates?

[FishingManMatt]

Indeed, I edited a few language files using the built-in language editor.
I noticed the same thing concerns the Birthday message template. In MS Outlook I see strange characters in place of diacritic marks and in the Gmail web interface I see even stranger characters in the message title.

[Illori]

can you download EmailTemplates.<language>.php from your Themes/default/languages folder and attach it to your next post?

[margarett]

There is no built-in language editor (or there is?) so you should be using a mod for that...

[Antes]

There is no built-in language editor (or there is?) so you should be using a mod for that...

There is but its sekrit hidden and not so lovely.

[Illori]

There is no built-in language editor (or there is?) so you should be using a mod for that...

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Languages#Edit_Language_Entries

[edit] you can not use the built in editor in 2.0 to edit the email strings.

[FishingManMatt]

[edit] you can not use the built in editor in 2.0 to edit the email strings.

Sure enough. So, seems I've never edited any email template language file. Probably I edited some other files and the email strings come from the official language pack.

I attached this lang file (it is in UTF-8 w/o BOM).

Affected messages: 'scheduled_approval' and 'happy_birthday'.