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General Community => Site Comments, Issues and Concerns => Topic started by: Cerberus on July 11, 2004, 11:34:03 AM

Title: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: Cerberus on July 11, 2004, 11:34:03 AM
When I'm posting in the Russian langauge support section I'm encountering a weird problem (charset?) :'(.
When I preview my post (opera 7.21|win xp) all the message, composed of cyrillic letters, is displayed correctly, but when I post the message is stored as a set of question marks, therefore other members aren't able to read my message.

Any thoughts?
PS: other Russian-speaking members have managed to post their message... ::)
Title: Re: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: [Unknown] on July 12, 2004, 12:49:24 AM
Have you tried a different browser, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla/Firefox?

I believe you can also force charsets with Opera and these other browsers; do you?  If so, to which charset... and does changing that help?

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Title: Re: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: Cerberus on July 12, 2004, 05:28:02 AM
Code Select
<html lang="en_US">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

Yes, I can force and set up a certain charset manually. Well, I've tried uft, iso-8859-1 and all the existing Russian encodings. Unknown, what do you think about creating special templates with national charsets for language specific boards?
Title: Re: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: [Unknown] on July 12, 2004, 05:30:50 AM
That's done with language files.  Special template or themes are completely unnecessary.

Have you tried another browser?

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Title: Re: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: Cerberus on July 12, 2004, 08:29:12 AM
тест тест тест
[testing Russian with IE6]
Title: Re: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: Cerberus on July 12, 2004, 08:31:17 AM
It works :o
IE has chosen ISO as encoding ::)
Title: Re: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: Oldiesmann on July 12, 2004, 08:32:06 AM
I see Russian... :)

FYI: If you are forced to use a different browser because of this problem (I've used Opera a few times and agree that it's nice), go with FireFox... ;)
Title: Re: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: Cerberus on July 12, 2004, 10:18:01 AM
???????? ?????
[testing opera ;D]

Oldiesmann, I've tried FF before, but I do prefer Opera :).
Title: Re: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: Oldiesmann on July 12, 2004, 05:18:05 PM
That's fine. I'm just saying if you decide to change browsers due to the issue of Russian not working in Opera, then go with Firefox.
Title: Re: Problems when posting in the russian section
Post by: [Unknown] on July 13, 2004, 03:19:49 AM
I don't know whether Opera has good internationalization support or not... it may not.

See, Internet Explorer and Mozilla send un-entity-able characters by character code, while it seems Opera just sends ?.  I'm not sure which is correct, but this means that Opera would require (apparently, although you should be able to force your own character set, should you?) a Russian language file set installed on this forum.

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